Sessions at JSConf EU 2011 about Banking on Saturday 1st October

Deep in the heart of the bank card industry, where you would least expect it, JavaScript is running on industrial machines to transform pieces of plastic into universally accepted payment vehicles.

This talk will introduce an effort of the chipcard industry to implement various aspects of payment technology, ranging from functionality of the cards themselves to mechanisms used to interact with cards for testing and injecting personal data. GlobalPlatform chose ECMAScript to enable chipcard personalization (http://www.globalplatform.org/sp...), providing interfaces to physically talk to the cards, access hardware security, crypto routines, etc.

I'll demonstrate an open source implementation based on Rhino, which will allow you, provided you have a card reader, to see what's actually stored on your credit card.