Ryan wrote about tamper-resistant hardware devices:
> If you're thinking of developing apps using any of these options,
> I'd suggest
> not becoming tied to any given vendor; these devices are prone to
> production
> problems, delays, etc. It's probably hard to follow that advice, though,
> given how specialized the APIs are on each platform; something
> like JavaCard
> would be an ideal OS, but is not supported on anything but the iButton
> AFAIK. However, implementing a minimal JavaCard API on each platform,
> then developing to the JavaCard API, would probably be reasonable.
I am not so sure I would want a JavaCard VM on the very heart of my TCB.
BTW, I think nCipher is/will be selling a device that supports Java[Card?].
You might want to look into that.
Have fun,
--Lucky
