Secure Multi Application Framework for Smart Card

Abstract

Smart Card is a popular device in the world because of the portability and the features provided are really adoptable to the day to day use of the millionth of cardholders. And this smart device has a major role in the area of cryptography. Although this Smart Card has the multi-application enable, still the cardholders have to use more number of cards to gain services. This research is focused on the issues such as how the multi-application feature make the cardholder trouble-free and replace number of cards by only one card. And what are the issues when the non-technical cardholder has the capability to install and uninstall applications to his own card. In this research we made the cardholder's life easy and they can easily con gure their Smart Card at some extent and re-personalize in a way that they need to use the services from the Smart Card. Since the Smart Card is memory constraint device, the memory is also a really problematic fact when using more applications in one card. The data set which com- mon to all the installed application is more towards to the data redundancy. The best way to keep those common data at once in the card is another main target of this re- search. The integrity of the data in the card is secured using cryptography algorithms. Secured data access is granted after checking the credentials of the authorized users and the mechanism used in the research is illustrated in this paper clearly. The main application is used in the card to store common data and Shareable Interface Object mechanism in Java Card Technology is used to distribute the data after registration process of every applications installed by the cardholder with the main application installed at the card personalization stage. The best use of Smart Card technology can make the world so easy and thesis is a kind of step for ful ll the gap.