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What is a Smart Card?
Standard credit card-sized with microchip embedded on it
Two types
Memory-only chips
Microprocessor chips
What is a Smart Card?
Can hold up to 32,000 bytes
Newer smart cards have math co-processors
Perform complex encryption routines quickly
History
1968- German inventors patent combination of plastic cards with micro chips.
1970- Japan patent different version.
1974- Roland Moreno invents integrated chip card and patents it in France.
1977- Motorola produces first smart card microchip.
History
1979- Motorola develops first single chip microcontroller for bank in France.
1982- ATM cards with smart chips tested and smart chips placed on telephone cards.
1991- AT&T declared its contactless smart card.
1992- Germany uses smart card for health care.
1996- First university campus deployment of chip cards.
What are Biometrics?
Biometrics are the science of measuring physical or behavioral characteristics that are unique to each individual and also verifies that an individual is who she claims to be.
History of Biometrics
Biometric verification was used thousands of years ago by the people in the Nile valley. They identified individuals through unique scars and a combination of features such as complexion, eye color, and height. They did not use the advanced technological tools we have today, but the basic principles used by them were similar.
Then in the nineteenth century criminology came up with a variety of measuring devices being produced. The development of fingerprinting became the international methodology among police forces for identity verification.
Biometrics Future
Health Services
Education
Transportation
Welfare
Entitlement Documents
Telecommunications