Open Source Operating System For Smart Cards

Posted by timothy on Saturday January 24, 2004 @01:28PM from the even-smarter dept.

Scott writes "The OSNews site refers to a new open source operating system for smart cards, and more specifically adapted for contactless and dual-interface chips. This operating system named jayaCard ('success card' in malaysian ?) is compatible with ISO 7816 and ISO 14443. It is currently ported to freely available microprocessor like the ATmega161/162 from Atmel. A simulator version for Windows and Linux is already available and the full cleanroom source code can be inspected at Sourceforge. It should be noted also that although still in alpha version, this software is more complete, more standard, more complex but as more ambitious as SOSSE, the first available OS of this type."

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Re:ummm ok by Anonymous Coward · 2004-01-25 01:56 · Score: 2, Informative

In the unlikely case that you were not trolling, just clueless
Re:ummm ok by droopycom · 2004-01-25 09:48 · Score: 2, Informative

Actually, he is probably just American... They have never heard of it there until recently when some credit card company (American Express ??) introduced a news credit card with a chip inside.

As far as i know they are mainly used in France where ALL credit/debit/ATM cards are smartcard as well as all prepaid phone cards (all public phone are equipped with a reader)

Once again the French have demonstrated great technology.... but as usual they have not been able to export it.