Smart cards

References

• • EMVco is owned by American Express, Mastercard and Visa, and is responsible for managing EMV standards.  The organization has a number of useful reference documents in the following categories:

  • Specifications

  • Best practices

  • Interoperability advisories

  • The SmartCard Alliiance is a non-profit group dedicated to promoting smart card usage.  There are several groups of documents available from their website:

  • Financial applications

  • CreditCall Communications has a website focused on their EMVx chip and PIN solutions.  They have some useful links:

    • Diagram of typical EMV transaction flow (there is also a transaction flow reference at Wikipedia)

  • Glossary of EMV terms

Programming references

• • Smartcard Standards is a web page of links to various smart card interface standards, hosted by Cardwerk Smart Card Solutions

Terminology

• • EMV Smart card standard based on standards set by Europay, Mastercard and Visa

  • ICC card Integrated Circuit Chip card, another term for smart card