Anders!! I'm surprised at the generality of the claim, given your usual focus on the mobile phone as the universal token (an obviously appealing notion.) Would you not support phones with near-field transport? For peer-peer data transport and device enumeration? This gets past the whole legacy of 7816-based half-duplex signaling, and the whole proprietary terminal business imposed by VISA/VeraPhone etc to bias the infrastructure for the card issuers benefit)
We are now manufacturing some tiny low-power Near Field USB tokens (courtesy of Phillips), if anyone wants to pay to manufacture a dozen, to play - as developers. They are also mifare responsive (separate circuit), for use in physical access control. If you want to talk to an early-stage NF "complete-system" supplier in the US (ie. go beyond playing with our NF dongles), we can direct that contact too. If anyone is at CT/ST in Las Vegas (US) on Wednesday, lets chat! Obviously, a dongle is not enough for a working solution: it has to fit with the fixed terminal, the phone, the card/dongle/phone provisioning and key management system, the mifare sensors on billions of office doors, etc. Peer-peer NF enumeration and wireless bus transport, plus end-end GP SCP-2 security, plus OTAR and off-issuer application loading with GP DAP controls. Now, there we have a more realistic basis...one that incorporates the potential of the universal bio handset (the finger-swipe enabled phone!) We have a set of working finger-swipe dongles to play with too, if any wants: there are different parameters and behaviors obviously, for the different sensor and swipe device classes. They use our own off-card match and user enrollment software, for the bio recognition stuff. They are being sold now heavily in ...urr... Scandinavian 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:muscle- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Anders Rundgren > Sent: Tuesday, April 12, 2005 4:57 AM > To: MUSCLE > Subject: Re: [Muscle] NIST Services > > 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. lman/listinfo/muscle _______________________________________________ Muscle mailing list [email protected] http://lists.drizzle.com/mailman/listinfo/muscle
