Java Card OpenPlatform (JCOP) is a smart card operating system for the Java Card platform developed by IBM Zürich Research Laboratory. On 31 January 2006 the development and support responsibilities transferred to the IBM Smart Card Technology team in Böblingen, Germany. Since July 2007 support and development activities for the JCOP operating system on NXP / Philips silicon are serviced by NXP Semiconductors.
The title originates from the standards it complies with: Java Card specifications GlobalPlatform (formerly known as Visa Inc OpenPlatform) specifications
A Java Card JCOP has a Java Card Virtual Machine (JCVM) which allows it to run applications written in Java programming language.
History
First JC/OP Masks
Mask 0 : 1998 (spring) First prototype on Atmel 8-bit uC – Flash memory, slow Mask 1 : 1998 Siemens/Infineon SLE66 IC – Public key cryptography Mask 2 and 3 : 1999 Gemplus International (now Gemalto) licensed JC/OP Base mask for GemXpresso product line Public key generation Visa OpenPlatform Mask 4 : 1999 Contactless JC/OP on Philips MifarePro chip 256 bytes RAM, 20 KB ROM and 8 KB EEPROM Dual interface
JCOP01 and Cooperation with Philips
Mask 5 : 2000
Philips P8WE smartcard microcontroller
‘JCOP01’ is the foundation for all later versions
JCOP licensed by IBM
JCOP Tools for development
Visa breakthrough program
To counter MasterCard’s MULTOS
Cooperation between IBM (OS), Visa (OpenPlatform) and Philips (IC) JCOP v1 owned by Visa JCOP v2 Owned by IBM, sold by Philips Philips SmartMX controller (SMX) JCOP v2.2 GlobalPlatform 2.1.1 Java Card 2.2.1 Elliptic Curve Cryptography (ECC) F2M support JCOP Tools Eclipse based
JCOP Transfer
JCOP v2.2.1 – JCOP v2.3.1
Owned by IBM, sold by Philips/NXP
Development transferred to IBM in Böblingen, Germany
USB interface
JCOP v2.3.2
JCOP technology owned by IBM
Policy change at IBM
Source code license acquired by NXP Semiconductors
To serve customer requests and projects
JCOP by NXP
JCOP v2.4
first NXP developed JCOP version
ECC GF(p) support
Java Card 2.2.2
JCOP v2.4.1
ECC primitive calculation support (point addition and multiplication) Common Criteria 5+ certification (CC) EMV, Visa and MasterCard approved NFC integration into PN65N combo chip: NFC and Secure Element JCOP v2.4.2 additional algorithms to support eGovernment use cases, i.e. AES CMAC CC 5+ NFC integration into PN65O
JCOP 3
mobile
Smartcard controller SmartMX2, P61, flash based persistent memory
JCOP 3.0
NFC integration into PN65T
Java Card 3.0.1 classic edition
GlobalPlatform 2.2.1
EMV platform certification
JCOP 3.1
NFC integration into PN66T
card
SMX2, P60, EEPROM based persistent memory
JCOP 3.x
(not released as of Dec 26, 2014)
Technical Overview
JCOP is an operating system for a security sensitive embedded system environment, smartcard or secure element controllers in particular. The functional architecture can be partitioned into three parts: Java Card, for development of applications, i.e. API and structure of card applets similar to class files GlobalPlatform, for administration of applications and operating system, i.e. loading and access control JCOP proprietary features, mainly Java Card API extensions, i.e. ECC primitive calculation or MIFARE DESFIRE management
NXP offers also MIFARE emulations for Classic and DESFIRE on the same chip as additional (native) operating systems. While JCOP is based on open standards, MIFARE technology is NXP specific. Java Card applets running in JCOP can then be used to manage the MIFARE memory through Java Card API. MIFARE Plus and MIFARE Ultralight are not (yet) supported.
GlobalPlatform
GP is a high-level standard with many options. As of JCOP 3, support for GP 2.2.1 was added, in particular to support mobile use cases JCOP 3 is fully Secure Element configuration compliant.