Internet card, a smart card as a true Internet node

We have defined a new concept named the Internet smart card. An Internet card is a device that is able to work as a true Internet node, and runs Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) client and TCP server applications (defined by Internet standards like the RFC 2068, HTTP 1.1...). A smart card is a single embedded chip including CPU and memory; the only means of communicating with the outside world is through a serial link. New communication architecture has been studied for both the terminal and the card. Through this stack a smart card shares the network resources located in the terminal. This concept has been implemented in a Java card and a Personal Computer, and the first results are presented here. Our first Internet card includes a web server and a trusted proxy, which add security features to the web connections.