1. What data does a smart card magnetic strip contains?
2. What data does a ordinary credit card magnetic stripe contains?
3. how can we retrieve those data?have any development kit in java available?
4. Kindly refer some documents that will brief us about the above questions?
See Smart Card has nothing to do with Magnetic Strip It is kept just to keep back ward copatibility see as all over the world there are less places where we have a smart card compatibility since the magnetic strip technology is older you cant change it at one glance so there is a Magnetic strip also provided . The Magnetic card contains three tracks the Track 1 &2 are specific to reading only and 3 rd track may also be written The magnetic card storage capacity is approx 1000 bits .
See in smart card you need a reader to read the data as Smart Card contains a microprocessor and a memory so its called smart the program is stored in that .
See if you go through the book Smart Card Hand Book by W Rankl & W Effing you will get the picture clear.
Neelesh
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