In fact you have a wide choice of manufacturers, this is the advantage of
the JavaCard interoperability approach, especially with the new well
specified version 2.1 (but 2.0 cards are still usable to prototype
applications until new 2.1 cards arrive).
8 bit cards have already good enough performances to support JavaCard for
many interesting applications. The main criteria today are memory available
to store applets and may be cryptographic capababilities. New (available
before 3rd or 4th quarter of this year) JavaCard 2.1 cards with Visa Open
Platform 2.0 will be in a first time only 8 bits cards (if I have well
understood some press release, even Gemplus is planning with IBM a 8 bit
card, some problem with the 32 bit approach?). It seems that all the main
manufacturers (Gemplus?, Sclumberger, Bull) will have similar 8 bit
technology for this new card, providing 32 kbytes of EEPROM for the version
without cryptoprocessor (so limited to DES and triple DES) and 12-16 Kbytes
of free EEPROM for the version with cryptoprocessor (needed for RSA). Note
that the present 32 bit card from Gemplus is anounced with only 10 Kbytes
of EEPROM.
Jean-Paul Billon
Bull Smart card & Terminal
Java Team
Foster City, CA
Juergen Blum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on 04/08/99 02:58:21 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
cc: (bcc: Jean-Paul Billon/US/BULL)
Subject: [OCF] java on smart cards
Dear OpenCard community,
We plan to use Java on smart cards to implement some
authenticaion procedures. Is there any other smart card
available than GemXpresso (Gemplus, 32 bit processor)
which has a sufficient Java performance ?
Best regards Juergen Blum
--
Dipl.-Inform. Juergen Blum
Atos GmbH
D-52076 Aachen
Fax: 02408-148-204
Tel: 02408-148-123
http://www.atos-group.de
Visit the OpenCard Framework's WWW site at http://www.opencard.org/ for
access to documentation, code, presentations, and OCF announcements.
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
--
To unsubscribe from the OCF Mailing list, send a mail to
"[EMAIL PROTECTED]" with the word "unsubscribe" in the BODY of
the
message.
Visit the OpenCard Framework's WWW site at http://www.opencard.org/ for
access to documentation, code, presentations, and OCF announcements.
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
To unsubscribe from the OCF Mailing list, send a mail to
"[EMAIL PROTECTED]" with the word "unsubscribe" in the BODY of the
message.
