I think the experiment I want to run here is this:
have vmware (which is usb-enabled) running on a windows host. When a vm
starts up its bios, it goes through the fingergear.com boot process: load
the fingergear.com's own mini-vm from the usb hard drive (designated as boot
device) as the OS, now hosted in the vmware image. Once the kernel on the
USB device boots, it images itself on the vmware instances screen, which is
of course hosted in a win32 window under the control of the NT HAL. Whatever
NICs are present to the emulated HAL, become available to the linux kernel.
So, if the emulated NIC appears as a hardwired NIC, that is actually mapped
by Vmware onto a wireless NIC, this should all be hidden from linux or the
hosted fingergearOS.
The linux shell that loads has a nice remote desktop client, supporting
various protocols including RDP 5. This can now talk to the hosting OS, of
course!
Ok oK. may be possible may; or, be not possible. And why bother?
We just have to understand that RDP and virtualization (and now USB parallel
computing) affects PC/SC, as device remoting (over secure RDP) such as
smartcard reader/device remoting is a part now of our security enviornment
that we must embrace, and understand. The trusted path between PC/SC deamon
and its RDP'ed reader device must be take into consideration , unless we
have (2-way) secure messaging to rely upon, in our application design
models.
From: "Peter Williams" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: MUSCLE <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Subject: RE: [Muscle] FeLiCa and QuicPay
Date: Sun, 18 Dec 2005 17:55:20 -0800
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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