Government Smart Card Interoperability Specification, Version 2.1

摘要

A typical configuration for a smart card system consists of a host computer with one or more smart card readers attached to hardware communications ports. Smart cards can be inserted into the readers, and software running on the host computer communicates with these cards using a protocol defined by ISO 7816-4 (ISO4) and 7816-8 (ISO8). The ISO standard smart card communications protocol defines Application Protocol Data Units (APDU) that are exchanged between smart cards and host computers. This APDU based interface is referred to as the virtual card edge and the two terms are used interchangeably. This Government Smart Card Interoperability Specification (GSC-IS) provides solutions to a number of the interoperability challenges associated with smart card technology. The original version of the GSC-IS (version 1.0, August 2000) was developed by the GSC Interoperability Committee led by the General Services Administration (GSA) and the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), in association with the GSA Smart Access Common Identification Card contract.