Re: [Muscle] windows CE, and PIV201 tokens / NIST

2005-08-12 Thread Anders Rundgren
http://csrc.nist.gov/publications/nistir/nist-IR-7206.pdf It seems that NIST researchers are doing things in this area. They have also concluded that the PIV card format is "wrong" and that PIV needs to get out of its ID-card/badge costume in order to deliver full value. Maybe the PIV card's user

Re: [Muscle] Vendor keys in smart cards - How/where?

2005-08-11 Thread Anders Rundgren
d further funding for a secretariat and a small number of editors. Short-sighted of them. (Anders: can you identify the security lists, please?) Peter Anders Rundgren wrote: > There has been several suggestions in various security lists that a > HW token during a CSR (Certificate Signing Re

[Muscle] Vendor keys in smart cards - How/where?

2005-08-11 Thread Anders Rundgren
have store (and use) keys in "strong cases". Pardon my ignorance, but is there any kind of standard practice for deploying vendor keys? Links would be higly appreciated. In addition I would like to know how one could handle such keys from a PKCS #11 interface. thanx, Ander

Re: [Muscle] windows CE, and PIV201 tokens

2005-08-09 Thread Anders Rundgren
Picture + PKI == >> The idea of mixing a badge for visual inspection with PKI for remote access >> was a great idea. Ten years ago. Today it only creates problems and should >> be >I would tend to agree, using traditional engineering principles. >But its an enticing social prospect: ta

Re: [Muscle] windows CE, and PIV201 tokens

2005-08-08 Thread Anders Rundgren
Peter, Why not contact these total losers that offers a $234 card reader, apparently approved by the GSA? http://www.karbonsystems.com/BlackBerry-SMIME-CAC-products_detail-83.html Note that Dell PDAs are shipped with a TPM although it is currently disabled. The idea of mixing a badge for visual i

[Muscle] US Real ID Act - Based on FIPS-201?

2005-05-11 Thread Anders Rundgren
http://news.com.com/Senate+approves+electronic+ID+card+bill/2100-1028_3-5702505.html?tag=nefd.top   Will Real ID be based on FIPS-201 (or similar), or is the US government about the only government in the world to exclude logical access in their ID-cards? Anders __

Re: [Muscle] NIST Services

2005-04-20 Thread Anders Rundgren
>NIST/PIV has nothing whatsoever to do with physical transmission or the >physicality of the platform. You can run it on a USB token, a PCMCIA >token, a harddisk, a TPM, a cell-phone or a tom-tom. In theory that may be right (I don't lnow that much about 781x standards), but an "ID-card" will for

Re: [Muscle] NIST Services

2005-04-16 Thread Anders Rundgren
Scott, >1) The CEPS documents were full of "Payments" and we know how successful >CEPS was. >2) I don't find "Payments" in many of the IAS/eID/CEN-224 documents >either. 1+2: It is really something entirely different I am thinking of. It is rather virtual resources in the spirit of VISA's 3D Se

Re: [Muscle] NIST Services

2005-04-15 Thread Anders Rundgren
I have a rather orthogonal comment to this. If you search for "Payments" or "GPEA" (Government Paperwork Elimination Act) in the FIPS-201 and SP800 documents you get zero hits. This part will be the biggest difference between PIV and its yet to be launched European counterparts. That is, the wel

Re: [Muscle] NIST Services

2005-04-12 Thread Anders Rundgren
- e-Sign, IAS, SIM, PIV, etc. - on any platform you want and communicate with it using any communication technology you want. The physicality of the platform and the communication channel are totally immaterial. Cheers, Scott -Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PR

Re: [Muscle] NIST Services

2005-04-12 Thread Anders Rundgren
an banks. Would be fun to make a device that links the three streams of work together - NF mobility, plus bio-swipe, plus a NF-based "match-on-peer" - where the phone's DSP is the peer for performing the match. > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:mu

Re: [Muscle] NIST Services

2005-04-12 Thread Anders Rundgren
Ok, So lets get political! To mix physical access based on biometrics with remote (a.k.a. logical) access based on "keys" is not such a terribly good idea as these uses constrain each other. I am almost sure that the Nordic region will not jump into this box, in fact we once started there in a g

Re: [Muscle] .Net remoting channel, muscle://

2005-03-01 Thread Anders Rundgren
;d know that there is no evidence whatsoever that Nokia or Motorola creates better code than Microsoft or IBM. At least Microsoft asks you if you want the update. The handset manufacturers in collusion with the operators just push it to your handset whether you like it or not. And you want me to

Re: [Muscle] .Net remoting channel, muscle://

2005-03-01 Thread Anders Rundgren
on the Internet rather than in the regulated "phone nets". And then comes things like WLAN, VoIP, Skype etc. that totally changes the fundamentals of the business. My guess is that big organizations will not accept that their employees use expensive operator- controlled lines if they alre

Re: [Muscle] .Net remoting channel, muscle://

2005-02-27 Thread Anders Rundgren
Another, somewhat related thought experiment: http://web.telia.com/~u18116613/TheUniversalAccessControlCard.pdf Anders R - Original Message - From: "Peter Williams" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "MuscleCard Mailing List" Sent: Sunday, February 27, 2005 05:14 Subject: [Muscle] Re: .Net remoti

[Muscle] Mozilla & CryptoAPI?

2005-02-23 Thread Anders Rundgren
Somewhat off-topic but assume that you wanted to switch frm MSIE to Mozilla but actually do not want to change anything else including card drivers etc. Wouldn't that require Mozilla to add CryptoAPI support? Anders R ___ Muscle mailing list Muscle@list

[Muscle] Federal Personal Identity Verification (PIV)

2004-11-06 Thread Anders Rundgren
er". Or maybe, define an initial form factor and interface, but leave the door open to other schemes like the ones the Trusted Computing Group are working with. Regards Anders Rundgren Developer of mobile security technology ___ Muscle maili

[Muscle] Motorola trials NFC payments with MasterCard

2004-10-14 Thread Anders Rundgren
http://www.motorola.com/mediacenter/news/detail/0,,4762_4058_23,00.html ___ Muscle mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.drizzle.com/mailman/listinfo/muscle

Re: [Muscle] NFC - A killer technology

2004-09-18 Thread Anders Rundgren
>>Bad way: Having the user / card / device recognize the >>authenticity of ATM. Using PKI that would require the >>root(s) of ATM PKIs be carried around. Will not happen. Ever. >Why not? Let's say I want to do business with bank XYZ. So I get a >certificate from their CA, and put it in my trus

Re: [Muscle] NFC - A killer technology

2004-09-18 Thread Anders Rundgren
>Perhaps I used the wrong choice of words. Symmetric keys can't scale to >2 billion users. Assymetric keys are necessary. I don't mean that a >fully integrated PKI is necessary. But some infrastucture may be >needed if one is going to trust a strange system. Although desirable, such requirements

Re: [Muscle] NFC - A killer technology

2004-09-16 Thread Anders Rundgren
Bruce, NFC is a *consumer* oriented solution. Such solutions by definition do not even try to solve all problems you describe. That the device would authenticate to the reader is out of scope in that realm. You should rather compare this to WLAN connections. There are no share secrets as that d

Re: [Muscle] NFC - A killer technology

2004-09-16 Thread Anders Rundgren
Bruce, Since I to some extent work with this I may provide some answers. NFC's main contribution is really "only" to initiate a secure WLAN, Bluetooth, or UWB link between a smart device an a contact point of some kind. A possible session state is only in the link. Due to the short range security

Re: [Muscle] NFC - A killer technology

2004-09-15 Thread Anders Rundgren
ginal Message - From: "Welson R. Jacometti" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "MUSCLE" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, September 15, 2004 21:47 Subject: Re: [Muscle] NFC - A killer technology Hello guys, I used to love Bitnet flames. Please let's start one here!

Re: [Muscle] NFC - A killer technology

2004-09-15 Thread Anders Rundgren
et of N in an industry, they will form a forum to declare their proprietary twonkies to be the industry standard. Yawn. Cheers, Scott -Original Message- From: Anders Rundgren [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, September 15, 2004 2:50 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [Muscle] NFC

[Muscle] NFC - A killer technology

2004-09-15 Thread Anders Rundgren
http://www.nfc-forum.org Finally, a technology that is produced by major companies that really solves not just a single problem but a huge number of completely different problems, ranging from WLAN access, calendar synchronization, to card reader "emulation". Only a universal technology like this

Re: [Muscle] UK ID cards not up to Estonian standards

2004-05-23 Thread Anders Rundgren
others. It of course has ZERO support in Scandinavia. - Original Message - From: "Anders Rundgren" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "Peter Tomlinson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, May 23, 2004 21:18 Subj

[Muscle] UK ID cards not up to Estonian standards

2004-05-23 Thread Anders Rundgren
ey have no limits on what they can do and it will be much cheaper than a single-function biometric- only card. It is not even certain that ID-cards will limit terrorism, as terrorists nowadays seem to be legal aliens. The heat is on (the ID market). Ander

Re: [Muscle] UK bio sensor trials

2004-05-09 Thread Anders Rundgren
I feel that they (the UK) have yet to address one crucial issue: Electronic IDs and physical IDs do not have to share format. Due to the fact that physical IDs nowadays need special equipment in order to verify their genuineness, it seems that the value of card-formatted credentials is slowly but

[Muscle] PKCS #15, Muscle & JavaCard

2004-05-06 Thread Anders Rundgren
I once participated in a smart card effort called SEIS. The outcome was PKCS #15. Question: Is PKCS #15 a core part of Muscle and JavaCards? Anders R ___ Muscle mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.drizzle.com/mailman/listinfo/muscle

[Muscle] Intel killed the smart ID-card

2004-04-13 Thread Anders Rundgren
From a recent Intel pressrelease:   The Intel PXA27x family of processors, formerly code-named "Bulverde," adds a number of new technologies to address the needs of cell phone and PDA users. It is the first product to integrate the Intel Wireless MMX technology, providing additional performan

Re: [Muscle] Privacy using a combined EMV and ID card

2004-03-15 Thread Anders Rundgren
ation. But who else can use that back door? And can that card securely host your private signing key? Peter - Original Message - From: "Anders Rundgren" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: "David Everett" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday,

[Muscle] Privacy using a combined EMV and ID card

2004-03-14 Thread Anders Rundgren
bject: Re: [Muscle] A combined EMV and ID card Who issues and manages and guarantees the ID information on the card? The bank? Or the government? That is absolutely crucial. Anders: Do you know any details of the technology used for the ID? Peter - Original Message - From: "Anders

Re: [Muscle] A combined EMV and ID card

2004-03-14 Thread Anders Rundgren
scle] A combined EMV and ID card Who issues and manages and guarantees the ID information on the card? The bank? Or the government? That is absolutely crucial. Anders: Do you know any details of the technology used for the ID? Peter - Original Message - From: "Anders Rundgren"

[Muscle] A combined EMV and ID card

2004-03-13 Thread Anders Rundgren
eed for secure "payment-tokens" if we restrict the scope to Internet-payments. Just my 0.2 EUR Anders Rundgren Consultant, PKI & e-Business +46 70 - 627 74 37 ___ Muscle mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.musclecard.com/mailman/listinfo/muscle

[Muscle] Multiple certs/key - Banned

2004-03-12 Thread Anders Rundgren
Some interesting info from another list It is interesting to note that the use of a single key-pair for multiple certificates still is fairly often touted by promoters of smart cards. Usually due to limitations in private key storage and generation. Anders PS I never thought this was a such a g

[Muscle] Re: WIM problem - Was. Wireles wallet

2004-03-11 Thread Anders Rundgren
>From: "Prágai Róbert" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >viva la WIM (Wireless Identity Module) cards, where even >strong hardware based cryptography could be achieved if the mobile >OS enabled to use it. (I have bad experiences with Symbian.) >I just wonder why the vendors do not let the market to >us

Re: [Muscle] Wireless Wallet - Already in Korea

2004-03-11 Thread Anders Rundgren
>From: "Bettina Martelli" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >I really don't understand this contraposition between >smart cards and mobile phones as "virtual" cards. >In each mobile phone there is a "real" smart card inside, >the SIM. Insofar a mobile phone ist just equivalent to >card + reader + some logic + m

Re: [Muscle] Wireless Wallet - Already in Korea

2004-03-10 Thread Anders Rundgren
>> > I say it one more time: The smart ID card is dead and gone. >> > It is beyond repair. >Dr Russel Winder wrote: >If the smart ID card is dead and gone why are so many governments >putting large projects together to make such cards a reality. What >makes you say it is dead and gone? I hope y

[Muscle] Mini-card - more fragmentation ahead

2004-03-10 Thread Anders Rundgren
http://www.visa-asia.com/getacard/visa_mini_faq.shtml Now we have contact and contact-less, regular and USB, and "Asian-sized" cards. What the card business needs is either Kofi Annan or George W. Bush. Or both maybe :-) An advantage with mobile phone based virtual SCs, is that they can have a

[Muscle] Mini-card - more fragmentation ahead

2004-03-10 Thread Anders Rundgren
http://www.visa-asia.com/getacard/visa_mini_faq.shtml Now we have contact and contact-less, regular and USB, and "Asian-sized" cards. What the card business needs is either Kofi Annan or George W. Bush. Or both maybe :-) An advantage with mobile phone based virtual SCs, is that they can have a

Re: [Muscle] Wireless Wallet - Already in Korea

2004-03-07 Thread Anders Rundgren
>Again, you need to revisit your model. Infrastructure will be funded out of >several pots, smart media out of several pots. The important infrastructure >is that paid for by the public sector - immigration, police, social >security, etc. Here in the UK we intend to charge UKP 30 for the cards >(bu

Re: [Muscle] Wireless Wallet - Already in Korea

2004-03-06 Thread Anders Rundgren
ne), or sell a ticket using a purse on the card, or decrement a carnet of tickets - this is for passage through gates. For sales at a vending machine, they want to take advantage of the same fast transaction time to allow you to just wave your card past the reader's aerial (rather than put the

Re: [Muscle] Wireless Wallet - Already in Korea

2004-03-05 Thread Anders Rundgren
ther vendor that provides the reader. As this technology broadens, we may open ourselves up to problems we had with contact based cards a few years ago. Best Regards, Dave On Mar 5, 2004, at 1:14 AM, Anders Rundgren wrote: > http://www1.chinadaily.com.cn/en/doc/2003-10/15/content_272271.htm &

[Muscle] Wireless Wallet - Already in Korea

2004-03-04 Thread Anders Rundgren
is beyond repair. It is like X.500 versus the Web. Or OSI versus TCP/IP. Or BetaMax versus VHS. I saw it happen in "slow-motion"... regards Anders Rundgren ___ Muscle mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.musclecard.com/mailman/listinfo/muscle

Re: [Muscle] White Card

2004-01-12 Thread Anders Rundgren
card holder > is the card issuer. > and >Trust is not transitive. The only multitrust token that will ever fly is the white card. Then Anders Rundgren wrote: > That means that you in essense say that TTPs don't work. We already use TTPs > since a long time ago for physical I

Re: [Muscle] White Card

2004-01-12 Thread Anders Rundgren
- Original Message - From: "Peter Tomlinson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, January 12, 2004 09:34 Subject: Re: [Muscle] White Card >First, in the study that I worked on, govts are not seen as TTPs except for >each other - i.e. the idea is that you can (within

Re: [Muscle] White Card

2004-01-12 Thread Anders Rundgren
- Original Message - From: "Scott Guthery" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, January 12, 2004 02:07 Subject: [Muscle] White Card >Does anyone really wonder why the European card model never gets beyond >the "Hey, kids! Let's write another sma

[Muscle] FAQ: e-Signatures and Payments

2003-11-12 Thread Anders Rundgren
Extract from an FAQ for an on-line e-signature standards proposal in progress (note that the following does not apply to EMV etc. that is stuck in an off-line world paradigm):  ...That is, DRY Signatures are neither useful nor intended to be used where the signature requester is unknown or ma

Re: [Muscle] On-line signature standards

2003-11-01 Thread Anders Rundgren
new markets, (b) how many of those new markets they have an early lock on. I need to get back to work, now. Less Marketing, more Programming. Peter. >From: "Anders Rundgren" >Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >To: >Subject: Re: [Muscle] On-line signature standards >Date: Fri, 3

Re: [Muscle] On-line signature standards

2003-10-31 Thread Anders Rundgren
Peter Williams [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >With Phillips now shipping the low-power >802.11b chips for use in GSM handsets, you will >soon see the SIM chip of your phone authenticating >to merchant terminals much as we now authenticate by presenting >a ICC on a plastic carrier to a swipe/smartcard

Re: [Muscle] On-line signature standards

2003-10-31 Thread Anders Rundgren
"Martin Buechler" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Just for clarification: What do you define as 'signing on-line data on >the web using Internet browsers' and where could one find an example? The scenario is that you are connected to an on-line service like a bank and at a certain phase have to aknow

Re: [Muscle] On-line signature standards

2003-10-30 Thread Anders Rundgren
rt card). Talking about CEN/ISSS, the following may be of interest... - Original Message - From: "Ketchell John" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Anders Rundgren" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, October 30, 2003 11:37 Subject: R

[Muscle] On-line signature standards

2003-10-30 Thread Anders Rundgren
n entirely proprietary mechanisms. Most of the vendors even require NDAs for getting the documentation. Anders Rundgren ___ Muscle mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.musclecard.com/mailman/listinfo/muscle

[Muscle] Muscles for EMV-cards?

2003-08-28 Thread Anders Rundgren
A somewhat naive question but are there any open source software for the EMV 2000 standard? EMV = Europay, Mastercard and VISA. Anders ___ Muscle mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.musclecard.com/mailman/listinfo/muscle

Re: [Muscle] PTDs vs. Smart Cards: The battle has begun

2003-08-14 Thread Anders Rundgren
Dear List, pardon the "politics". Unless there is a big interst in this issue, I will refrain from further comments. - Original Message - From: "Peter Tomlinson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, August 14, 2003 08:19 Subject: Re: [Muscle] PTDs vs. Smart Cards:

[Muscle] PTDs vs. Smart Cards: The battle has begun

2003-08-14 Thread Anders Rundgren
ill be comparatively easy to migrate to use HW-based security in 3-4 years from now. Anders Rundgren ___ Muscle mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.musclecard.com/mailman/listinfo/muscle