2. What is a Smart Card?
Standard credit card-sized
plastic card ,with a silicon
microchip embedded on it.
Two types
Memory-only chips
Microprocessor chips
3. The card is "smart" because it is
"active", that is that it can receive
information, process it and then
"make a decision".
Can hold up to 32,000 bytes
Newer smart cards have math co-
processors
Perform complex encryption routines
quickly
17. Why Smart Cards
Improve the convenience and security of
any transaction.
Provide tamper-proof storage of user and
account identity.
Provide vital components of system
security.
Protect against a full range of security
threats
