Category Archives: Research

Research work about Java Card and open smart cards.

Challenge: Analysis for fault induction

One of the most common attacks used on cards these days is fault induction, in which some kind of external means is used to trigger a fault in the execution of an application. One of the effects that can be obtained is to modify the value that is read by an EEPROM access. For instance, […]

Java Card platform performance measurement

Java Card performance has always been a contentious issue: first, between the Java Card vendors; then, between the Java Card supporters and the native card supporters. The issue is sensitive, because it is a commercial argument, which has been used and misused across the years.