Books by Ugo Chirico

With Smart Card Programming the reader will have the expert guidance he need to work with smart cards. The book offers a comprehensive guide, to the technological aspects related to smart cards, providing an high level overview of the technological panorama and giving an in-depth technical coverage about the related architectures, programming paradigms and APIs. The first part of the book introduces the smart card technologies, the general concepts and a few case studies. It is addressed also to non-technical reader who wishes an high level overview on smart card world. The second part of the book is a technical guide to smart card specifications and programming paradigms. It dives into technical topics about smart card programming and applications development in C/C++, C#, Visual Basic and Java. Key features include: - Contact and Contactless Cards - ISO 7816 - NFC - JavaCard Framework - PC/SC - PKCS#11 - OpenCard Framework - Java - Smart Card I/O - GlobalPlatform - EMV

Un manuale completo sulla programmazione delle Smart Card: specifiche tecniche e piattaforme di sviluppo in C/C++, C#, Visual Basic e Java. Il libro offre una guida chiara, ma allo stesso tempo completa ed esauriente, a tutte le tecnologie, gli standard e le specifiche tecniche legate alle smart card, dando prima una visione generale dello scenario tecnologico e proponendo poi un approfondimento tecnico sulle architetture, le piattaforme, i paradigmi di programmazione e le API relative a ciascuno standard e/o specifica tecnica presentata. Tra gli argomenti trattati nel testo troviamo: le specifiche ISO7816, la piattaforma JavaCard, le specifiche PC/SC, le specifiche PKCS#11, OpenCard Framework, Java Smart Card I/O, EMV, la SIM card, etc.