Hi Alon, That's great news! br ar ----- Original Message ----- From: "Alon Bar-Lev" <alon.bar...@gmail.com> To: "Anders Rundgren" <anders.rundg...@telia.com> Cc: <opensc-devel@lists.opensc-project.org> Sent: Sunday, April 19, 2009 19:16 Subject: Re: [opensc-devel] Open Source USB Smart(er) Card
Checkout [1]. [1] http://code.google.com/p/opencryptotoken/ On 4/19/09, Anders Rundgren <anders.rundg...@telia.com> wrote: > > > Dear List, > I'm looking for partners to create an alternative to the existing smart > cards. > > Note: I would not consider this as alternative to government eID programs > because they live their own life, usually completely unaffected of > technology, prices, card readers (...), etc, :-) > > > I started thinking about using non-crypto HW like this: > http://www.atmel.com/dyn/products/tools_card.asp?tool_id=3879 > > The following article proves that you don't need any exotic processor: > http://www.cs.harvard.edu/~malan/publications/secon04.pdf > > I'm currently in sort of "feasibility study" where I evaluate different > alternatives and technologies. The bottom line is that there is no token > available on the market that can host more than a handful of keys. On the > Internet you need a lot of more keys if 2FA (Two Factor Authentication) is > going to take off in a big way. I believe that dirt-cheap electronics and > ECDSA could be a great combination! On-line provisioning using KeyGen2 is > also part of this concept: > http://keycenter.webpki.org > > A stand-alone USB token should be possible to sell for $7 while the add-on > cost for existing USB sticks may be something like 50 cent. > > > Token middleware has to date been a real hassle. Even even if tokens follow > standards, standards are still subject to interpretation, options, etc.. > Having the implementation in source code makes a huge difference. > > Anders Rundgren > > _______________________________________________ > opensc-devel mailing list > opensc-devel@lists.opensc-project.org > http://www.opensc-project.org/mailman/listinfo/opensc-devel > _______________________________________________ opensc-devel mailing list opensc-devel@lists.opensc-project.org http://www.opensc-project.org/mailman/listinfo/opensc-devel
