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Using Smart Cards for Authenticating in Public Services: A Comparative Study

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International Joint Conference (CISIS 2015)

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Smart cards are well-known tamper-resistant devices, and as such they represent an excellent platform for implementing strong authentication. Many services requesting high levels of security rely on smart cards, which provide a convenient security token due to their portability. This contribution analyses two Spanish smart card deployments intended to be used for accessing eGoverment services, comparing their respective contents and capabilities.

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Acknowledgments

This work has been partially supported by Comunidad de Madrid (Spain) under the project S2013/ICE-3095-CM (CIBERDINE).

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  1. Grupo de Neurocomputación Biológica, Departamento de Ingeniería Informática, Escuela Politécnica Superior, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Madrid, Spain

    D. Arroyo Guardeño

  2. Institute of Physical and Information Technologies (ITEFI), Spanish National Research Council (CSIC), Madrid, Spain

    V. Gayoso Martínez, L. Hernández Encinas & A. Martín Muñoz

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  1. Department of Civil Engineering, Escuela Politécnica Superior, University of Burgos, Burgos, Spain

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Arroyo Guardeño, D., Gayoso Martínez, V., Hernández Encinas, L., Martín Muñoz, A. (2015). Using Smart Cards for Authenticating in Public Services: A Comparative Study. In: Herrero, Á., Baruque, B., Sedano, J., Quintián, H., Corchado, E. (eds) International Joint Conference. CISIS 2015. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 369. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-19713-5_37

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