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Project Origin
This project is a small playground for smardcard applications.
It is the continuation of Jean-François Houzard and Olivier Roger master thesis "Development of an ePassport API and deployment in real-life applications".
The ePassport API is called pyppasport and one of the real-life applications is called ePassport Viewer are available freely on google code.
Smartcard ?
Working on ePassport was an interesting introduction to the smardcard world. It basicly gathers two types of devices. On one side the contact chip used in banking card, access card or more recently electronic identification card (eID). On the other side are contactless tags powered by Radio Frequency (RFID) used in animal taging, supply chains and ePassport.
The chip/tag memory and processing capabilities strongly vary depending on
