A quick look to Cryptography

A quick look to Cryptography

Cryptography deals with algorithms able to protect relevant information against potential attacks performed by malicious men that want to steal private information such as business or personal sensible data. Cryptography is concerned with all issues related to message-security, peer-authentication and integrity-check....

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Note sulla ricerca semantica

Note sulla ricerca semantica

Quando si parla di motori di ricerca, si pensa immediatamente a Google. E’ nostra consuetudine, qualunque sia l’informazione di cui abbiamo bisogno, andare su google e digitare alcune parole relative all’argomento di nostro interesse. Solitamente i risultati ricercati sono contenuti entro i primi dieci link proposti. Alle volte invece bisogna scorrere le pagine e leggere diversi contenuti non attinenti prima di trovare ciò che interessa. Certe altre volte, addirittura non si trova nulla. Perché?...

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Smart Card Middleware, the Big Picture

Smart Card Middleware, the Big Picture

"Smart Card Middleware" usually means a set of libraries that allows integrating the smart card in third party applications. But the question is which exactly are the libraries supplyed by a smart card middleware? The schema below shows the "Big Picture":...

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Smart Card database by ATR

Smart Card database by ATR

As described in Part 3 of ISO 7816 specifications, the ATR is a sequence of bytes sent by the microchip when replying to a RESET signal. In practical terms, each RESET operation induces on the I/O contact a microchip’s reply constituted by up to 33 characters coding a set of information relating to microchip’s characteristics such as: supported transmission protocols, installed operating system, microchip’s version and manufacturer and so on....

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