Hi, > Thanks for the series of fascinating posts and NFCTagInfo (I just > installed it today!).
:-) > There's still a few things that are unclear to me about why card > emulation isn't possible. I realize that applets within the secure > element can't be modified without the vendor crypto key, but what is > preventing a company or a (determined) developer from emulating the > applet outside of the secure element? At the moment: There is no support for software card emulation in the standard Android system. You should be able to do this with CyanogenMod 9(? don't know exactly which in version the necessary patches were included, but the patches exist). Also when you emulate the smartcard in software on the application processor, you won't have the security of a dedicated smartcard chip of course. For more information on this issue, you might be interested in my recent paper "Software Card Emulation in NFC-enabled Mobile Phones: Great Advantage or Security Nightmare?" Available online: http://www.medien.ifi.lmu.de/iwssi2012/papers/iwssi-spmu2012-roland.pdf > Is this how the SuicaMobile android application works? It was written by > the company itself, but since it works with stock android, it doesn't > have access to the WRITE_SECURE_SETTINGS permission. I didn't find any app by that name on Play Store. br, Michael -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
