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Plastic cards for identification purposes (Iscards) have been in use for over 50 years, while cards with machine-readable data have been available for about 20 years. Figure 1 shows card technologies commonly employed today. Most widespread are cards with magnetic stripe. Holographic cards are used e.g. as prepaid cards f o r public telephones, laser cards for mass storage applications.
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Krivachy, T. (1986). The Chipcard — An Identification Card with Cryptographic Protection. In: Pichler, F. (eds) Advances in Cryptology — EUROCRYPT’ 85. EUROCRYPT 1985. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 219. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-39805-8_23
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