Martin Paljak wrote: > Last but not least, there needs to be a balance between (security)features > and price, and nifty features like trusted PDA-s (such as [1]) with a > kickass display, verified firmware (not needed if you don't care) don't come > cheap.
No, but unlike smart cards which have essentially been standing at the same point for a decade, mobile phones evolve at at rate that hardly any other device can match. So it is only a matter of a few years before today's pricy kick-ass phone is medium-range thing that most people can afford. A more critical problem with mobile phones as "credential containers" is that all efforts establishing a provisioning infrastructure so far have failed. I'd hope that Android would make a difference but since the users of the infrastructure like banks and governments do not fund or participate in any kind of open development processes, it is essentially up to individuals or the platform vendors themselves to fix this "deficit". Anders > > > [1] > http://www.gdc4s.com/content/detail.cfm?item=32640fd9-0213-4330-a742-55106fbaff32 _______________________________________________ opensc-devel mailing list opensc-devel@lists.opensc-project.org http://www.opensc-project.org/mailman/listinfo/opensc-devel
