PC-smart card interface

Page under construction (last update: 1 Mar 2000)

This page contains some information about smart cards and interfacing them to PCs. By now you can find:

Smart card basics (phone cards). Updated.
The physical PC-smart card interface (direct connection).
A program to read/write 1st generation phone cards with a direct connection.
The memory map of a Spanish phone card read with the program above.
Lastest news: a new Spanish phone card has been issued. It is a second generation card with 16 bytes. Decoding of its contents is in progress.
A program to read/write 2nd generation phone cards with a direct connection.
The memory map of an old German phone card read with the program above.
The memory map of a new German phone card read with the program above.
The memory map of the same card after I wrote all writable bits with the program above.
The coding of the new German phone card based on my (limited) experience.
Short specs of the chip used in many second generation cards (those with 16 bytes): Siemens SLE 4406.
A phone card emulator:
- Phrack Magazine, V7, I48, F10.
- Phrack Magazine, V7, I48, F11.
- The UUEncoded file UUDecoded!
- The PCB in GIF format instead of in HP LaserJet format.
Simpler card emulators (text in Spanish, but schematics are in an international language :-).
- Older emulator.
- New emulator.
Link to other reader design: Telecard Mapping Home Page.
Links to other sites with related information.
3rd generation smart card basics.
For more advanced learning, you can have a look to the specifications of the new (3rd generation) smart cards used in credit and debit cards.
You can also have a look to the specifications of the future electronic transactions that smart cards will use, for example, in Internet. See this tutorial too.

[email protected] (1-Mar-2000) My PGP public key.

This link: http://www.gae.ucm.es/~padilla/extrawork/smart.html
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