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The aim of this chapter is to describe the main middlewares and APIs used to manage and access smart card readers and smart cards, along with the mobile phone APIs to access smart cards, SIM card and Secure Elements. It is illustrated by samples of code that the reader of this book will be able to reuse to quickly develop his/her first applications to communicate with smart cards.

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  1. XLIM UMR CNRS 7252, Université de Limoges, Limoges, France

    Damien Sauveron

  2. LaBRI UMR CNRS 5800, Université de Bordeaux, Bordeaux, France

    Damien Sauveron

  3. Smart Card Centre, Information Security Group, Royal Holloway, University of London, Egham, Surrey, TW20 0EX, UK

    Raja Naeem Akram & Konstantinos Markantonakis

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  1. Director of the Information Security Group, Head of the School of Mathematics and Information Security, Royal Holloway, University of London, Egham, Surrey, United Kingdom

    Keith Mayes

  2. Smart Card Centre, Information Security Group, Royal Holloway, University of London, Egham, Surrey, United Kingdom

    Konstantinos Markantonakis

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Sauveron, D., Akram, R.N., Markantonakis, K. (2017). Smart Card Reader and Mobile APIs. In: Mayes, K., Markantonakis, K. (eds) Smart Cards, Tokens, Security and Applications. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-50500-8_12

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