Review of Smartcard Attacks and Countermeasures

摘要

Smart card is not tamper proof but it is temper resistant and temper evident to a degree. Smart card is widely used for business transactions and multiple services in a wide range of industries worldwide to support access, identity, payments and other applications. This paper presents an overview of attacks against smart card implementations and possible countermeasures for attacks that can give background for the assessment of the tools to improve security system of cards. 1. INTRODUCTION Smart card (Fig. 1) is a piece of specialized cryptographic hardware that contains its own CPU, memory and OS.