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SCCB

Smart Card CNAM Benchmark

This project was initiated by Pierre Paradinas when he joined the CNAM as Professor in charge of the "Chaire des systèmes enfouis et embarqués" (Embedded and Mobile System) at the end of 2003, after 14 years in Gemplus where he set up the Software Research Lab.

The project goal is to establish a benchmark for Java Card technology with an open approach and promote the tools as a reference for smart card industry.

The project was introduced during the e-Smart conference, the welcomme from industry was very positive and mentioned in Smart Card Trends in the October 2004 issue.

Card manufacturers and software providers have already provided cards, reader and software to the project.

Project goals

The Java Card specification defines an API for smart cards, card manufacturers develop and test card with the specification, implemntation reference and test suite provided by Sun Microsystem.

There is no tools with the goals to evaluate the card performances in term of time execution and memory cunsumption. Our project intend to provide these tools.

Many softwares are developped for the project :

In card tools include a large number of applets, each applet will invoke and activate a specific function of the card API,
Off card tools include software develop in C language which intend to measure the execution time of each applet, memory resource used by the applet,...
A software that compile the set of applet results and provide a "number" that represent the "performance of a card" compare to the set of cards used as reference...

To avoid difference and increase the precision of results we have develop an approach based on USB-reader with PC/SC driver and an other with the MP300 reader from Micropross which is able th measure with precision the respond time of the card.

The project will be published on the web.

What we will be published ?

The complete set of card applets (source code and cap file)
The complet set of off card software (USB-reader and precision reader
The formula that allow you to review how the benchmark is establsihed

What we will be NOT published ?

The cards results of each cards received and used to establish the reference.

What you are able to do with the result ?

If you were a "card" provider to our project, you may compare and verify the result we got and play it again!
If you were not a "card" provider to our project, you may compare your card to the

What will be the next steps ?

In Q2, review of first results with the "card" providers,
In Q3, the benchmark will be publish,
The project will propose new step based on exchange with potential partners interested by this technology.

You want to be part of the project :

Please send a mail to Pierre.Paradinas@cnam.fr

Publications :

Open Benchmark for Java Card Technology, presented at e-Smart 2004.

Press :

Dernière mise à jour April 2005