lets share our capabilties on changing the muscle applet, particularly on the bio API.
We have built several versions of USB tokens with finger reader capabiities. One version has onboard memory, another has onboard CPU for pattern matching, another assumes the USB host will perform the algorithm. These are used by banking customers, when manufactured in lines of 5000 units. Costs and practicality factors vary, by version, and by chipset.
We have built some experimental boards also - these having two new capabilities: an ARM-based javacard-enabled CPU on the USB token, and a reader board with the USB-on-the-Go facility, for hostless enviornments requiring peer-peer USB. The latter experiments with different forms of ICCs - 7816 form, and the base chip packaged for different environmental assumptions. i.e can I start my car with the finger USB token, when the car 's microcontrollers initial temperature is -30C, in deepest MN at 0500H, in deep winter.
If you have some new firmware/muscle-applet extensions, we can try things out and see what the requirements appear to be, given these examples. If nothing else, Ill package up software changes, and maintain them in the public respository, if you wish.
On a design level, we can compare this wok with the requirements that NIST/NSA have identified, for their bio-enabled smartcard standards. While defense/intelligence companies like SUN will simply contribute to and adopt the NIST finished standard, there is always a market for simpler/cheaper standards that we usually address for industrial control, or custom applications.
Peter.
From: Tommaso Cucinotta <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [Muscle] muscle applet deletion of keys, change of parms Date: Mon, 19 Jan 2004 12:21:25 +0100
Peter Williams wrote:Thanks for the comments: Ill assume the original design team is no longer> [...]
active, and I can set some new goals. I see no reason why the target should
Hi,
we're still using the Applet, along with further changes that have been done by others, as a testbed at my university. As an example, within the Smart Sign project, it has been used for testing the JMuscleCard adaptation layer for Java, as well as the JC-Emulator. (currently we are working on a biometrics extension for supporting fingerprint recognition). If you're going to customise the protocol and Applet so to enhance functionalities for a wider range of applications, or for a compliance to a somewhat wider range of applications (due to standards existing in the field), then we'd like to give some contributions to the design and/or implementation of such functionalities.
Regards,
Tommaso.
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