Preface

The technical groundwork has been laid for wide-spectrum exploitation of smart card technology in both commercial and enterprise venues. Our goal in this book is to provide IT managers, system architects, system analysts, and application developers with the basic information about smart card technology that they need to open the tap on the incredible value stored in this technology.

Information about smart cards and the technical detail needed to harness the technology has historically been very hard to come by. This, more than any other factor, has been the barrier to the use of smart cards. Whereas they once had a unique value offer, smart cards now have many technical substitutes. Belatedly, the smart card industry has realized that ...

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