Smart Cards, Java Cards and Security
Asking if smart cards are secure is very much like asking whether a computer or a bank is secure. There really is no answer to the question since the term "smart card" is used for an entire family of technologies. Nevertheless, smart cards are currently being touted as a partial solution to open problems in e-commerce security. So what are they anyway? What's special about Java-based smart cards? And what impact can they have on e-commerce security?
Business Uses for E-commerce
Java reinvents the way applications are distributed to clients and executed, thereby creating a world where business applications can be shared with clients without security risks, where small snippets of code can be sent along with raw data to create dedicated information filters, and where universally portable code allows for new kinds of computing devices.
Yes, Java's Secure. Here's why.
Secure transactions on the Internet? Yup. Here, today, now. Just run Java-compiled bytecode on a Java Virtual Machine, and you can keep the cyberpunks off the Internet.
Successful Deployment of Electronic Commerce Applications: Process is Key
The challenges in developing and deploying an electronic commerce application are significantly different from designing Web sites or developing client-server applications. Are you in search of a silver bullet?
Users' Choice Survey: Electronic Commerce Systems
You don't have to be a Net insider to know that electronic commerce is heralded as the great hope for businesses looking to generate some serious revenue online. Industry research firms have made astronomical projections for customer spending on the Internet. And with companies such as Amazon.com and CDNow already wildly successful from the online transactions, businesses ranging from mom and pop shops to huge conglomerates want to jump on the bandwagon. Fortunately, several vendors are filling this need by offering a wide variety of software solutions which can turn your visitors into customers and your Web site into a storefront.
How secure is the Java Wallet
From time to time, we hear that electronic commerce, particularly via the World Wide Web, will revolutionize the way that business is done. Yet the financial industry has been slow to embrace, or even to acknowledge, the forecast revolution, and many people, fearing electronic fraud and imposture, remain suspicious of the technologies involved and refrain from using them. In an effort to allay such fears and to offer a secure environment for electronic transactions, Sun Microsystems is developing the Java Wallet, which it believes will provide solutions to the manifold problems of electronic commerce.
Electronic Commerce: Choosing the Right Tools
Commercial products can help you along the road to electronic commerce and save you valuable development and support time. E-commerce, the entire process of selling your product online, includes finding your customers and drawing them to your store, getting them to select a particular model from the stock, calculating sales tax, calculating shipping charges, requesting payment, processing that payment, shipping the goods, updating inventory and supporting the customer post-sale.
The Java Card
What's in your wallet? Wouldn't it be cool if I could carry all of that information on one card that had robust, built-in security? That's the idea behind smart cards and the Java Card API.
Making the Internet Safe for E-commerce
The term Java security is overloaded--sometimes people mean the applet security policy, and sometimes they mean the features of Java that help developers build robust, safe applications. This overview will introduce the main concepts.
Web Servers Tuned for E-commerce
All commerce-oriented servers look the same until you have to use them to exchange goods and dollars. If you don't want to be fooled when you shop for such a server, know in advance how it must work.
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