Morning/Afternoon (or evening where ever you are)

I'm posing a question regarding Smart Cards (as in the Travel Card style, with a little chip on them)

The problem I seem to have is they are probably all proprietary or encrypted (from my Google search)

I don't know if there is a generic kind of reader what will show me anything?

I'm curious if anybody has come across things like this and how they proceeded?


Thanks,
4F  

In this page you can find a doc about smartcard. It's not forensic but hacking.
hackmeeting.org/hackit14/slides/