Hi everyone, Finalnd was the first country to issue electronic ID cards based on public key infrastructure. This so called FINEID-application on the card is based on PKCS#15 file structure and stores two X.509 certificates and related private keys which can be used for authentication&encryption (first key pair) and digital signatures (second key pair).
The card is issued by the government and everyone living permanently in Finland can have one. The card works as a key to services and information in the Internet so nothing else stored on the card except keys and certificates. Everything else is in the related services: home banking, government services, insurance services, community services etc. Anyone can build up services based on the FINEID card so it is really an open smart card infrastructure. Also digital TV set top boxes based on Multimedia Home Platform -specifications are able to use the card so cards can not only be used through PCs but also in TV environment. You can find more information and the specs from www.fineid.fi Best regards Vesa Vatka Vesa Vatka, Mr. Business Manager Financial Solutions Miotec Oy Kamreerintie 6, FIN-02770 Espoo, Finland Tel. +358 9 804 5300, fax +358 9 863 0046 Mobile +358 40 756 8576 Mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] www.miotec.fi Miotec exhibits the latest card and software products for secure transactions at CeBIT on March 13 - 20, 2002. Welcome to visit our stand F43 in hall 17. -----Original Message----- From: GHOSHAL,Biswajit [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 1. maaliskuuta 2002 6:42 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [OCF] Smart card application Hi Anne, Whatever said and done, till now smart-cards are yet to become "smart" (i.e. - use a single card to access various kind of applications). Card vendors, in collaboration with financial institutes in different countries are implementing single-application smart-cards only. Some intellegent people are developing web-apps that can interact with smart-cards. But I don't know of any implementation where using a single-card one can interact with different kind of applications...if anyone else in this mailing-list know of such implementation - please let others know... Best Regards, Biswajit > -----Original Message----- > From: Anne Kwong [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Friday, March 01, 2002 12:55 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: [OCF] Smart card application > > Hello. > > Could anyone let me know if there are any websites or books out there that > talks about how people use smartcard today and what kind of application > people are developing? > > Thanks for any info that you can provide. > > Anne > > > --- > > Visit the OpenCard web site at http://www.opencard.org/ for more > > information on OpenCard---binaries, source code, documents. > > This list is being archived at http://www.opencard.org/archive/opencard/ > > ! To unsubscribe from the [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list send an email > ! to > ! [EMAIL PROTECTED] > ! containing the word > ! unsubscribe > ! in the body. --- > Visit the OpenCard web site at http://www.opencard.org/ for more > information on OpenCard---binaries, source code, documents. > This list is being archived at http://www.opencard.org/archive/opencard/ ! To unsubscribe from the [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list send an email ! to ! [EMAIL PROTECTED] ! containing the word ! unsubscribe ! in the body. ########################################### For your information security, this message has been scanned by F-Secure Anti-Virus for Microsoft Exchange. http://www.F-Secure.com/ --- > Visit the OpenCard web site at http://www.opencard.org/ for more > information on OpenCard---binaries, source code, documents. > This list is being archived at http://www.opencard.org/archive/opencard/ ! To unsubscribe from the [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list send an email ! to ! [EMAIL PROTECTED] ! containing the word ! unsubscribe ! in the body.
