The difficulty of standardising Smart Card Security Evaluation∗

There is a need for assessing the security of smart cards by an independent third party, specially if multi-application smart cards become reality. Intuitively, the methods to obtain this could be derived from the computer industry where security evaluation already is commonplace, but because of the special properties of smart cards, this seems very difficult. The article discusses the problems related to this topic, and makes suggestions on how security evaluation of smart cards can be achieved.