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The ISO 7816 Smart Card Standard:
Overview

The standardization of smart card systems is an ongoing process. One of the standards most referred to is the ISO-7816 standard. ISO stands for International Standards Organization and the standard has been established to describe "Identification Cards - Integrated Circuit Cards with Contacts". It includes multiple parts the first 5 of which are listed in the following table.

ISO7816 document

Description

ISO 7816-1 Physical characteristics
ISO 7816-2 Dimensions and location of the contacts
ISO 7816-3 Electronic signals and transmission protocols
ISO 7816-4 Industry commands for interchange
ISO 7816-5 Number system and registration procedure for application identifiers
ISO 7816-6 Interindustry data elements

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The various parts we present here start with an overview without going too much into details. If available, we add free ISO7816 documents. If you want to go deeper into ISO 7816, you can get the complete standard directly from the International Standards Organization in Switzerland and purchase the ISO 7816 documents over the web.