Smart Card

Description

A smart card is a plastic card, resembling a credit card, that contains a computer chip.

What it can do The chip enables the holder to perform various operations, such as mathematical calculations, paying bills, and the purchasing of goods and services(http://www.gdjx.cn/). In Germany, they are used as health insurance cards. They are different than credit cards because they have been specially designed to be tamper-proof. As of the year 2000, typical circuits consisted of an 8-bit microprocessor running at 5MHz, 1K of RAM, and 16K of ROM with a 9.6-kbps half-duplex interface (www.about.com).

History

Smart Cards were first invented by the french 20 years ago. It was first used in the United States in 1987 as a Peanut Marketing Card. By 1995 over 3 millions mobile phone subscribers used a smart card for billing the minutes they used.

New products

A SCardX^? Easy is a smart card ActiveX^? controls which adds to your applications and does the following:

1.Events detecting : you will be informed about all smart card devices states changes; - commands sending : you will be able to send the commands APDU and the command data buffers into an any opened smart cards and to receive the cards answers; -

2. Information receiving : you will be able to receive all information of the smart cards service about the opened smart cards or an attached devices; - data ciphering : you will be able to encrypt and to decrypt the text data using the DES algorithm; -

3. LookUp^? the errors and states : you will be able to use the Error LookUp^? and Reader States LookUp^? services of the control;

4. The SCardX^? Easy ActiveX^? control creates the communication channel between the parent application and an open smart card via the smart card service and the attached smart card reader. This control allows you to send the command APDUs and command data buffers into an any ISO-7816 compatible smart cards and to receive the cards' answers using card's "native" language - the language of the command APDU's. It is the lowest level of work with a smart cards from the PC. Using SCardX^? Easy ActiveX^? control you can send into your smart cards any commands according to the cards' specifications easy and without any limitations. Add the smart cards functionality into your applications quickly and easily: - MS Visual Basic, Visual C++; - Borland Delphi, C++ Builder; - HTML + VBScript, JavaScript^?; - VBA + MS Office; - any other which supports the ActiveX^? technology ...

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