Smart Card - Design

Design

A smart card may have the following generic characteristics:

• Dimensions similar to those of a credit card. ID-1 of the ISO/IEC 7810 standard defines cards as nominally 85.60 by 53.98 millimetres (3.370 in × 2.125 in). Another popular size is ID-000 which is nominally 25 by 15 millimetres (0.984 in × 0.591 in) (commonly used in SIM cards). Both are 0.76 millimetres (0.030 in) thick.
• Contains a tamper-resistant security system (for example a secure cryptoprocessor and a secure file system) and provides security services (e.g., protects in-memory information).
• Managed by an administration system which securely interchanges information and configuration settings with the card, controlling card blacklisting and application-data updates.
• Communicates with external services via card-reading devices, such as ticket readers, ATMs, etc.