Smartcards - Online Resources

LINKS.001 (Initial)
T J Hudson tjh@cryptsoft.com
29 December 1997


Table of Contents


1. Online Resources

Smartcard and other such hardware tokens (including crypto accelerator boards) and the appropriate software interfaces to such devices.

1.1. Documentation and APIs

1.2. Manufacturers

1.3. System Integrators

1.4. Specific card details

All of the following are details about RSA capable Smartcards.


2. Implementations


3. GSM

One of the more interesting aspects of GSM is the use of Smartcards for access control and storage of phone lists and messages.

General background information:

General programming information

Hardware connectors

General background information

http://www.intertrader.com/library/DigitalMoneyOnline/dmo/dmo_c.htm

3.1. SMS

GSM has a messaging interface called SMS (Short Messaging Service) which allows 162 byte messages to be sent to the mobile phone. This is what is normally used for notification of the availability of voice mail messages but can be used as a fairly generic paging interface.

Getting details from your local mobile phone network company is almost universally challenging.

3.2. SMS Gateways

There are a number of gateways available online at the moment which offer free email to SMS gateways. There are also a few commercial services which charge registered users for traffic through the gateway.

3.2.1. Free

3.2.2. Commercial

3.2.3. Testing