The reason for asking, is that my bank provides internet banking, and the authentication process is greatly simplified by having a STK-supporting phone. Basically, the telco installs a piece of software onto the SIM card (already done), that exchange encrypted sms with the bank. Most of the software runs on the SIM card processor. That part works with any phone - even the freerunner.
STK support on the phone is needed when this software need to ask me about my banking PIN code. It needs to display a prompt, and get my response. And the sim card processor can obviously not control the display directly, but making such a question-answer GUI is simple enough. The interesting question - is this possible at all? Is our gsm chip capable of STK communication? Is there a set of AT commands (or similiar) to use for this purpose? I teach programming, so I can sometimes set up student projects for things like this. Provided that it is possible, of course. STK is used for various other purposes as well, some of which may be nice to support. I do not worry that telcos might use STK for crippling the phone. The phone is open-source, and it will obviously possible to not use this software. Don't install STK if you don't want it. Also, an open-source implementation of STK won't be able to do wrong. We control it, so it can't control the phone against our will. Helge Hafting _______________________________________________ Openmoko community mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
