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IBM Smart Card OS On A 1MB Smart Card

Posted by timothy on from the what-will-your-passport-say-about-you dept.

michaelpapet.com writes "IBM has ported/developed their Javacard smart card operating system for Sharp's 1MB smart card. Read Sharp's announcement here. Interesting features include: AES encryption; elliptical curve encryption; and 1MB of storage. Sharp's smart card package claims to be almost as small as a normal smart card package. In an industry that can considers 64K of memory a luxury, 1MB is staggering. Read Sharp's original 1MB smart card announcement here. Is this a 'Build it and they will come...' kind of solution? How small is an 'almost as small' smart card IC package?"

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  1. Re:OS by Melibeus · · Score: 5, Funny

    As soon as I finish porting the kernel to java...

  2. redudancy alert by xsupergr0verx · · Score: 5, Funny

    One "640k should be enough for anybody" joke in the title should be enough for everybody.

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  3. Re:Please don't do it by simcop2387 · · Score: 1, Funny

    ok how about this?

    64k should be enough for anyone!

    there i didn't make a 640k is all you'll ever need joke... oh wait does that count?

  4. Re:OS by Trejkaz · · Score: 2, Funny

    Dude. That would be awesome!

    Then I could run Linux on Java on Linux on Java on Linux on Java on Linux on Java on Linux on Java ...

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