INVESTIGATION OF JAVA SMART CARD TECHNOLOGY FOR MULTI-TASK APPLICATIONS

Abstract

The objective of this work is to build a number of different secure applets for Java smart card were each applet is designed for a specific task. Three packages were designed; the first package is the “Secure Wallet” which represents the electronic money storage card for financial services such as banks. The second package is “Card Connection”. This package was designed to be used in prepaid communication applications such as telephone, Internet, etc. The third package is “Health Care”, which represents the medical file for the card carrier. It is used in hospital, clinic and medical establishments. These applets were simulated by development kit for the Java card platform. Each applet was compiled, converted, verified, and installed successfully using the development kit tools. During the installation step, a script file was produced which contains Application Protocol Data Unit (APDU) commands. Each APDU command was processed and the result of processing was saved to a log file that represents both the command and the response APDU. Both the inputs and the results were in hexadecimal