somebody in this thread mentioned using a linux computer on a USB stick, which might use the PC as its remote screen etc.

Well I finally got and deployed the mentioned fingergear.com device, $99 retail base, $150 for the variety with Atmel bio/onboard-matching support; and indeed, I get not only a flash drive, but a bootable linux (my PC motherboard happens to faciliate booting from USB devices of the appropriate classes). Indeed Im using it to construct this message! This capability of deploying debian LINUX and mozilla is clearly far beyond a custom app (GINA or otherwise) being downloaded into Windows, from the flash drive, and acting as a password cache for website forms, etc.

ok i'm intrigued. What does this all mean for PC/SC on Linux?

its obviously only a matter of time (and money) before the linux kernel could mount other USB devices hosted by the motherboard, such as a CCID reader, or the PC/SC infrastructure could detect USB plug and play events, relayed by themaster hub to the BIOS on the motherboard - and thence to the kernel over the link setup between BIOS and kenel, via the i486 boot image.

From: "Peter Williams" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: MUSCLE  <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Subject: RE: [Muscle] FeLiCa and QuicPay
Date: Thu, 10 Nov 2005 12:00:24 -0800

Felica is a(nother) Sony power play; its architecture is driven by multi-media licensing requirements, versus promoting open standards for platforms.

eWallets were worked on 5 years ago, leading to VISA standards supported by MS and W3C. The concept failed, in the PC world. Its cheaper to indemnify the risk faced by the consumer than solve the infrastructure problems of legacy PCs. Sonera had advanced GSM-based eWallet serices for mobile devices too, at the time.


From: Olli Vertanen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: MUSCLE  <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Subject: [Muscle] FeLiCa and QuicPay
Date: Thu, 10 Nov 2005 13:59:56 +0200 (EET)


Hi all,

I spent some hours yesterday looking for specs about DoCoMo's FeLiCa
mobile wallet system and it's QuicPay protocol. All I found was
some brochures and very cursory conference papers.

Does anyone know any published documents about the systems: authentication
scheme, platform  (Java Card?), how to write/add applications to card,
payment protocol, etc.

Are there any similar European/US projects going on? There's PayPass
etc. put has somebody integrated those to handhelds. DoCoMo system is
promoted by a mobile operator, but a working global mobile
wallet should be based on international application standards. Is there
an e-wallet standard?

Thanks!

Olli Vertanen
Univ. of Kuopio/Finland

P.S. There's an article about DoCoMo mobile wallet in the latest IEEE
Spectrum, available online.
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