How reliable is the security of smart cards?

Intelligent card, also known as ICC (Integrated Circuit Card) or chip card, is a credit card size card that usually holds a computer chip containing a microprocessor inserted into it, capable of receiving and processing data. While some smart cards are used for identification, others are used to hold important records or transactions and have been provided for use including financial transactions, security systems, loyalty programs and satellite television. In all cases, securing smart cards is an important problem. The intelligent card is like a magnetic stripe on steroids. It has at least 80 times the magnetic stripe card and the microprocessor allows you to read and update the magnetic stripe cards when used.

The magnetic lane card has certain security problems. The data is stored in the lane and the belt can be easily accessed and written, deleted or edited. The Credit Card Verification and Processing System is created for proteinformation about ZRA ZRAnibble card. Security of intelligent cards takes a different approach. It relies on the microprocessor in the card that protects access to data stored on the card.

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intelligent card has vulnerability areas. While contactless cards read low power laser, the contact cards are read by the card reader. In 2009, scientists at the Radbud University in the Netherlands discovered how to use the information that the Mifare card reveals while determining the user's legitimacy to decrypt the "secure" information. However, experts argue that this smart card technology has evolved since the Mifare cards were first produced in 1995, and Mifare Plus, the successor of the tested card, cooperates with scientists to improve their smart cards.

Efforts to improve security of smart cards are underway. In February 2010, Giesecke & Devrient GmbH and Oberthur Technologies SA, two smart manufacturersCH cards, have associated with Infineon Technologies AG and inside contactless SA, two chips suppliers to call for a new solution for securing intelligent cards.