This page provides information on the evaluation of smartcards and similar devices under JISEC scheme.

This page provides technical documents such as specific evaluation methods for Smartcards, which are issued as Common Criteria Supporting Documents from CCRA. These documents are supporting documents, intended for evaluators to complement the CC/CEM during the IT Security Evaluation of Smartcards and related devices. To use these as a reference, it should be noted that there are some differences between the versions and/or revisions of the CC/CEM in these documents and the current effective CC/CEM, and that the Japanese scheme has some differences in regard to the role of the Certification Body mentioned in these documents.

Mandatory Technical Documents (CC Supporting Documents)

Under the JISEC, the original texts of the mandatory technical documents (standards) shall be effective as follows:

CCDB-2009-09-001	Requirements to perform Integrated Circuit Evaluations v1.0 (84 KB)
CCDB-2009-03-001	Application of Attack Potential to Smartcards v2.7 (180 KB)
CCDB-2009-03-002	The Application of CC to Integrated Circuits v3.0 (232 KB)
CCDB-2007-09-001	Composite product evaluation for Smart Cards and similar devices v1.0 (308 KB)

Guidance (CC Supporting Documents)

Followings are supporting documents which are open to the public at CCRA as a significant reference for Smartcard Evaluation, etc.

CCDB-2010-03-001	Smartcard Evaluation v2.0 (216 KB)
CCDB-2007-09-002	ETR template for composite evaluation of Smart Cards and similar devices v1.0 (338 KB)

Reference

For the purpose of understanding the above "Mandatory Technical Documents" or "Guidance", some of the old editions are provided as below. Please note that these have some differences from the versions and/or revisions of the current effective CC/CEM.

CCDB-2008-04-001	Application of Attack Potential to Smartcards v2.5 (182 KB)
CCDB-2006-04-001	Smartcard Evaluation v1.3 (689 KB)