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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?"

2 of 128 comments (clear)

  1. Please don't do it by Stevyn · · Score: 0, Troll

    No "640k is all you'll ever need" jokes, please!

  2. Java OS? by Rgb465 · · Score: 0, Troll
    IBM has ported/developed their Java...operating system

    Yeah, I wrote one of those back in '98...yeah, its still booting...