Rankl
Wolfgang
Allgemeines
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Administration
The homepage of Rankl Wolfgang online since 1996.
Impressum
Das Impressum, damit den deutschen Gesetzen genüge getan ist.
Bücher über Chipkarten
Smart Card Books
Handbuch der Chipkarten
Das Handuch der Chipkarten ist seit 1995 in mehreren Auflagen das internationale Standardwerk über Chipkarten.
Smart Card Handbook
The Smart Card Handbook is since 1997 the international reference book for the smart card technology.
Translations of the Smart Card Handbook
The Smart Card Handbook is translated in many other languages. Here are some of it.
Chipkarten-Anwendungen
Das Buch mit Musterlösungen, zahlreichen Entwurfsmustern und vielen Beispielen für professionelle und sichere Chipkarten-Anwendungen.
Smart Card Applications
The book with sample solutions, numerous design patterns and many examples for professional and secure smart card applications.
Nützliches rund um Chipkarten
Useful things around Cards
Java Card
Ideas and many samples for Java Card programming and Java Card Applications.
PC as Smart Card Terminal
Java open source software for doing interesting things with smart cards.
The Smart Card Simulator
A open source Visual Basic programm to simulate a Smart Card.
Smart Card Link List
The famous link list about Smart Card technology.
Smart Card FAQ
The English/German Smart Card FAQ with more than 350 questions and answers since 1999.
Smart Card Tables
Many tables with important informations about smart card operating systems.
Andere interessante Dinge
Other interesting Things
Rankls Blog
My personal blog about this side and about Smart Card technology.
Fraunhofer Smart Card Price
The Fraunhofer SmartCard Price is the most important technical award in the technical smart card world.
SMS Transceiver (SMST)
The open source PC based tool for sending and receiving SMS with a connected mobile phone.
SMS Transceiver for PIC (SMST4PIC)
The open source PIC microcontroller tool for sending and receiving SMS with a connected mobile phone.
Logbook
6. February 2010
add a search engine for www.wrankl.de in the FAQ section
6. February 2010
add a translator for the FAQ section
6. February 2010
add many new questions and answers in the FAQ section
10. October 2009
Artikel zu den üblichen zur Absicherung von PIN-Vergleichen im Blog.
3. October 2009
add many new questions and answers in the FAQ section
19. April 2009
New development snapshot with great new functionality of SMST4PIC (Version 6 Snapshot D) is available
27. August 2008
Die praxisbewährte Anleitung zur Analyse einer unbekannten Chipkarte in nunmehr auch online verfügbar.
23. August 2008
Actualised the famous smart card link list.
21. August 2008
Die Version 10 der Ergänzungen und Korrekturen für die
4. deutsche Auflage des Handbuchs der Chipkarten ist verfügbar.
31. July 2008
Die 5. Auflage des Handbuch der Chipkarten ist ab 7. August 2008 im Buchhandel erhältlich, deshalb habe die entsprechende Seite komplett überarbeitet.
22. July 2008
redesign of the famous smart card FAQ side and add over 50 additional questions and answers from end of 2006 until now, more than 330 questions and answers are in this list!
6. July 2008
switch to a improved layout of the entry side of this homepage
5. July 2008
add many informations about smart cards operating systems in the section smart card tables
12. Mai 2008
finished the manuscript for the next edition of the Handbuch der Chipkarten (German edition)
8. Feb. 2008
Wolfgang Rankl receive the Fraunhofer SmartCard price 2008
21. Sept. 2007
redesign and actualise the famous smart card link list
7. Sept. 2007
add a blog about smart card and this side
1. Sept. 2007
start to redesign this side to a modern layout with CSS
9. Feb. 2007
my new book about Smart Card Application Patterns is available from John Wiley & Sons