Since1994, CARDIShasbeentheforemostinternationalconferencededicatedto smart card research and applications. Every two years, the scienti?c community congregates to present new ideas and discuss recent developments with both an academicandindustrialfocus.Followingtheincreasedcapabilitiesofsmartcards anddevices, CARDIS has becomea majoreventfor the discussionofthe various issuesrelatedtotheuseofsmallelectronictokensintheprocessofhuman-machine interactions.Thescopeoftheconferenceincludesnumeroussub?eldssuchasn- working, e?cientimplementations, physicalsecurity, biometrics, andso on. This year's CARDIS was held in London, UK, on September 8-11, 2008. It was organized by the Smart Card Centre, Information Security Group of the Royal Holloway, University of London. Thepresentvolumecontainsthe21papersthatwereselectedfromthe51s- missions to the conference. The 22 members of the program committee worked hard in order to evaluate each submission with at least three reviews and agree on a high quality ?nal program. Additionally, 61 external reviewers helped the committee with their expertise. Two invited talks completed the technical p- gram. The ?rst one, given by Ram Banerjee and Anki Nelaturu, was entitled "Getting Started with Java Card 3.0 Platform." The second one, given by Aline Gouget, was about "Recent Advances in Electronic Cash Design" and was c- pleted by an abstract provided in these proceedings.