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Smart Card Production Environment

An Overview to Smart Card Production Processes

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This chapter gives an introduction to the production steps in the lifecycle of a (smart) card. After a short introduction, the manufacturing of the card body will be described. The next paragraphs give information on the personalisation process chain from data processing and on to card personalisation and additional services such as packaging and shipment. A separate paragraph focuses on quality and security issues. At the end, there are a few thoughts on current trends and challenges for the smart card industry.

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  1. Yahya Haghiri, Thomas Tarantino: Smart Card Manufacturing: A practical guide, John Wiley & Sons Ltd, 2002.

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  1. Giesecke & Devrient, Munich, Germany

    Claus Ebner & Thomas Goetz

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  1. Director of the Information Security Group, Head of the School of Mathematics and Information Security, Royal Holloway, University of London, Egham, Surrey, United Kingdom

    Keith Mayes

  2. Smart Card Centre, Information Security Group, Royal Holloway, University of London, Egham, Surrey, United Kingdom

    Konstantinos Markantonakis

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Ebner, C., Goetz, T. (2017). Smart Card Production Environment. In: Mayes, K., Markantonakis, K. (eds) Smart Cards, Tokens, Security and Applications. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-50500-8_2

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