The smart card market in 2001

Schlumberger forecasts growth of over 20% in 2001     

Assa Abloy gains access to the smart card market

In a series of strategic moves, Swedish giant Assa Abloy has acquired the identification technology business of German group ACG and will take a majority position in smart card reader supplier Omnikey.Visit www.compseconline.com for the latest computer security industry news     

Voice authentication smart card

Businesses appear to be taking security more seriously, but senior management do not seem to know which way to turn. Attitudes are gradually changing, however in the current environment few have a tight reign on internal or external policies. It is widely acknowledged that an effective security plan breeds trust which is the life’s blood of E-commerce.     

Microsoft demonstrates smart card technology

Microsoft is to install smart card systems at its technology centres around the world. The software giant will use the technology to demonstrate to clients the integration and implementation of smart cards in a Windows-based environment for network security.     

Link-time smart card code hardening

This paper presents a feasibility study to protect smart card software against fault-injection attacks by means of link-time code rewriting. This approach avoids the drawbacks of source code hardening, avoids the need for manual assembly writing, and is applicable in conjunction with closed third-party compilers. We implemented a range of cookbook code hardening recipes in a prototype link-time rewriter and evaluate their coverage and associated overhead to conclude that this approach is promising. We demonstrate that the overhead of using an automated link-time approach is not significantly higher than what can be obtained with compile-time hardening or with manual hardening of compiler-generated assembly code.