Contactless and Smart Card Basics
Chip Antenna
THE CARD - CONTACT THE CARD - CONTACTLESS Benefits Benefits • Ability to perform a secure transaction • Fast, easy, and as secure as chip-based contact transactions • Increase security of credentials through authentication, data • Card and device are embedded encryption, and physical contact with multiple layers of security with reader • Capabilities for future expansion Tech specs Tech specs • Most common smart card type • Communicates using radio frequency • Electrical contact points on the (RFID) chip’s exterior • Facilitated between an antenna in • Points are physically contacted the card and a proximity coupler in by a device inside the reader the reader
Applications • Card held up to the exterior of the reader at a certain distance • Used globally in the financial industry to perform credit card and debit card Applications transactions • Read-only: proximity card for • Government agencies: badges with building access contact chips increase logical access, including dual authentication • Read-write: physical access and logical access, secure network logon, • Higher education payment cards digital signature, encryption of IT and logical access, such as time and infrastructures attendance, cafeteria meal plans, and library privileges • Transportation, digital enterprises, retail, education, financial, identity authorization Learn about our issuance systems at entrust.com Contactless and Smart Card Basics
Ethernet USB Connection Connection Printer Smart Card
CONNECTIONS LOOSELY COUPLED SOLUTION Benefits Benefits • Provides a more secure network • Local access where networking environment is not possible
• Allows for encryption of card • Ability to be backwards compatible personalization data that is sent with previous applications using over the network Entrust loosely coupled encoders • Complete experience for the Tech specs end-user • Printer has two connections to the PC Tech specs • “Printer” connection delivers • The printers are part of a network commands for card movement, that can be accessed by any PC magnetic stripe operation, and residing on the network printing
• Through the network, all commands • “Reader” connection is exclusively are sent to the smart card module designed for smart card reader/chip and printer from the PC commands Applications • Termed “loosely coupled” because the printer and reader connections • Typically used in financial issuance operate independently of credit and debit cards Applications • Allows customers with a campus environment seamless and secure • Required for customers interested communication across their network in issuing ID credentials in various vertical markets • Often used in education markets and corporations issuing credentials • Ideal in remote distributed issuance applications
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CARD & READER INTERACTION Creating a smart card Card info Data 1. Printer encodes or reads data on the smart chip and reports it back to the PC
2. During encoding, the card’s personalization information is also reported to the reader
3. The reader knows to correspond that information to the data encoded
4. The reader reports card information to the PC
Read-write loosely coupled
Using a contact smart card 1. Card is inserted into a contact reader
2. Electrical points on the chip are contacted by a device inside the reader
3. Data encoded onto the chip is transferred to the reader
Using a contactless smart card 1. Card is held up to a reader that supports it
2. Antenna inside the card communicates with a proximity coupler inside the reader via radio frequency (125 kHz or 13.56 MHz)
3. Data encoded onto the chip is transferred to the reader from a certain distance
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SPECIFICATIONS & STANDARDS Software specifications Requirements & compliances • Card personalization is controlled • Entrust ensures that all of its by a PC connection, using a driver products meet globally implemented for encoder or software development industry standards kit (SDK)
• PC/SC (personal computer/smart • Driver for encoder is a user interface card) compliant couplers provided by installed on the PC; best suited for Entrust include Identiv (SCM), Duali, non-automated, low-volume card and HID Omnikey® production
• Other existing custom-made software EMV capabilities applications require SDK as a tool to • Entrust offers a wide range of communicate with the reader encoders as an option to our card printers • Entrust software suite includes native support for specific card technologies • All of these printers are capable of creating cards for an EMV application
• Entrust provides a complete EMV card solution in the market, including hardware, software, supplies, and service
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