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Towards a Full Formal Specification of the JavaCard API

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Smart Card Programming and Security (E-smart 2001)

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This paper reports on ongoing work to develop a formal specification of the JavaCard API using the specification language JML. It discusses the specification of the JCSystem class, which deals with the JavaCard firewall, (atomic) transactions and transient objects. The JCSystem class seems to be the hardest class in the API to specify, and it is closely connected with some of the peculiarities of JavaCard as opposed to Java.

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  1. Computing Science Institute, University of Nijmegen, Toernooiveld 1, 6525 ED, Nijmegen, The Netherlands

    Hans Meijer & Erik Poll

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  1. Hans Meijer
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  1. INRIA Sophia Antipolis, BP 93, 06902, Sophia Antipolis Cedex, France

    Isabelle Attali

  2. Campus de Beaulieu, IRISA/CNRS, 35042, Rennes, France

    Thomas Jensen

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Meijer, H., Poll, E. (2001). Towards a Full Formal Specification of the JavaCard API. In: Attali, I., Jensen, T. (eds) Smart Card Programming and Security. E-smart 2001. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 2140. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-45418-7_14

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