Smart cards feature a small embedded chip which operates as a "mini-computer" that not only securely stores data but also can process information and react to its environment. These features give smart cards the unique ability to provide secure, portable access to personalized services while protecting each user s privacy and identity.

In the federal government, the Department of Defense (DoD) uses smart card technology for the Common Access Card (CAC). Gemalto is a prime supplier of smart cards to the DoD. The U.S. federal government expects to expand its programs to issue smart cards for strong authentication and as highly secure identity credentials, and is moving closer toward the goal of a common identity credential for both physical and logical access control across all of its branches.

Smart cards actually offer more security and confidentiality than other financial information or transaction storage vehicles. A smart card is a safe place to store valuable information such as private encryption keys, account numbers, passwords, or valuable personal information. It's also a secure way to perform processes that one would not want intercepted, such as the transfer of money from a personal bank account to a seller.

That is entirely your decision based upon your marketing strategy. Some merchants have found it very effective to give the Cards to their best customers while some merchants sell the Card to their customers for a nominal amount and generally the Card already is loaded with some amount of reward or pre-paid item.

Currently the City has only a few smart cards available to assist with customer service issues. For example, the "meter greeters" sometimes use them to assist customers having difficulty using a pay station. SDOT is exploring the potential to join in on the regional transit smart card project (with seven participating transit agencies, lead by King County Metro) to create a "transportation card" with a separate electronic purse for parking payments. This project is not set to launch until 2006.

If you are using any of these for logging in to your network it will most likely still work normally. However, as Alertsec has pre-boot authentication, the drivers which read these devices are not available when Alertsec is active so you will not be able to use them instead of Alertsec Xpress authentication at boot time.

Smart cards offer a number of features that can be used to provide or enhance privacy protection in systems. The following is a brief description of some of these features and how they can be used to protect privacy. Authentication. Smart cards provide mechanisms for authenticating others who want to gain access to the card. These mechanisms can be used to authenticate users, devices, or applications wishing to use the data on the card’s chip.

Quit Smart is available in a self-help stop smoking kit and, in many communities, as a three-session quit smoking class that utilizes the kit plus personalized instruction. Quit Smart combines several powerful treatment elements — including hypnosis, medication recommendations and a patented cigarette substitute that simulates a cigarette — to produce a potent stop-smoking treatment.

Yes, but Beardies were bred to be independent thinkers. Sometimes they'll decide what THEY want is better than what you want. For instance, staying in the back yard is more interesting than coming inside. Or playing in a mud puddle is more fun than staying on dry ground. The trick in training Beardies is to convince them it's something THEY want to do. And that takes an owner that's smarter than they are not always easy! When it comes to housebreaking, they're individuals, just like children.

In addition to recording programs specified by the users, a feature pioneered by TiVo is the recording of additional programs based on the viewing habits of the household. TiVo users can also rate programs favorably or unfavorably (ranging from three "thumbs up" to three "thumbs down"). These ratings as viewing habits are correlated with the content of other programs to identify similar programs that the viewer is likely to find favorable.

Contactless smart cards use RF technology, but, by design, operate at a short range (less than 4 inches) and can support the equivalent security capabilities of a contact smart card chip (see below). Contactless smart cards and readers conform to international standards, ISO/IEC 14443 and ISO/IEC 7816, and can implement a variety of industry-standard cryptographic protocols (e.g., AES, 3DES, RSA, ECC).

NSS supports the PKCS #11 interface for smart card integration. Applications that use the PKCS #11 interface provided by NSS will therefore support smart cards from leading vendors such as ActiveCard, Litronic, and SecureID Technologies that also support the PKCS #11 interface.

Typically the included cards are 1 each: CLXSA002KA2 - (2K memory), CLXSA128KA4 - (128K memory), CLXSA064KA3 - (64K memory), CLXSA256KA5 - (256K memory), CLXSA008KB5 - (2Kbit secure memory). We reserve the right to substitute cards based on inventory or customer requirements.

Yes, the Smart Buyer Program card can be used or honored at other merchants who have enrolled in the Smart Buyer Program. For example, merchant A issues the card and merchant B is also a SBP merchant. The customer takes his/her card to merchant B and has merchant's B SBP loaded onto his card. Merchant A receives $0.50 from Merchant B since Merchant A issued the card. Both merchants win. Merchant A gets revenue to defray the cost of the card and merchant B gets a new customer for $0.

For the complete list of authentication devices supported by Dekart software, please visit the List of supported devices page.

ISO 14443 has two variants, Type A and Type B. ISO 14443A was accepted by the ISO committee in 1997. It is the first ISO standard for 13.56 MHZ frequency contactless card which was developed by Mikron Austria and acquired by Phillips in 1996. Currently, ISO 14443A is the most widely used contactless standard in the world, mainly in transport applications. ISO 14443B was approved by the ISO committee in 1998.

In 1998, Philips and Texas Instruments presented ISO 15693 for vicinity applications. The aim of this standard is to increase the reading distance. Its predecessor, ISO 14443, only has a communication of 10cm, ISO 15693 expands the communication range for vicinity operations to around 1.5m in gate configuration. However, its drawback is its limited communication speed which is offset by the communication range.

Smart cards are widely acknowledged as one of the most secure and reliable forms of an electronic identification (ID) token. A smart card includes an embedded integrated circuit chip that can be either a microcontroller chip with internal memory or a secured memory chip alone. The card communicates with a reader either through direct physical contact or with a remote contactless electromagnetic field that energizes the chip and transfers data between the card and the reader.