• The Journal of Society for e-Business Studies
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• v.9 no.1
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• pp.303-320
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• 2004

Smart card is a useful tool used in electronic payment systems and it is very important to test whether a smart card operates correctly. In this paper, we analyze previous researches on testing smart cards, such as ISO/IEC and KS standard documents, and Guideline of Card Quality Test. We also propose the functional test results done on the Highpassplus card of Korea Highway Corporation. By testing the Hipgpassplus card we can get card systems with reliable functionality and security. Furthermore, this can help developing more reliable security systems. The test results of the Highpassplus card proposed in this paper are the first research on testing smart cards in services in Korea and we expect that the test methods of smart card will be advanced based on our results.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information Security & Cryptology
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• v.15 no.5
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• pp.47-57
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• 2005

For economic reasons, even though there are some security problems, the commands of re-initializing and writing patch code are widely used in smart cards. The current software tester has difficulty in detecting these trapdoor commands because trapdoors are not published and programmed sophisticatedly. Up to now the effective way to detect them is to completely reveal and analyze the entire code of the COS with applications such as the ITSEC. It is, however, a very time-consuming and expensive processes. We propose the new detecting approach of trapdoors in smart cards using timing and power analysis. With our experiments, this paper shows that the proposed approach is more practical than the current methods.