A comparison of Java Cards : state-of-affairs 2006
Wojciech Mostowski, Jing Pan, S Akkiraju, de Ep Erik Vink, E. Poll, den Ji Jerry Hartog · 2007
This document presents the results of a comparative study of some popular Java Cards on the market. Eight different cards from four manufacturers have been con-sidered. The analysis has been done at two levels – (i) a documentation-based com-parison, also taking other publicly available resources into account, (ii) an actual hands-on testing with software developed specifically for this purpose by the Pin-pasJC research team. The investigations focus on basic functionality, secure chan-nels, the transaction mechanism, support symmetric and asymmetric cryptography, Global Platform and Open Platform compliance, and garbage and memory manage-ment. 1