Breaking Down Architectural Gaps in Smart-Card Middleware Design

• Autores: Tommaso Cucinotta, Marco Di Natale, David Corcoran
• Localización: Trust and Privacy in Digital Business: First International Conference,TrustBus 2004 Zaragoza, Spain, August 30 - September 1, 2004 Proceedings / coord. por Sokratis Katsikas, Günther Pernul, Javier López, 2004, ISBN 3540229191, págs. 279-288
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • This paper presents an open and modular middleware for smart cards, interoperable across multiple card devices, and portable across various open platforms. The architectural design is centred around the definition of a smart card API that allows protected access to the storage and cryptographic facilities of a smart card. The proposed API allows partitioning of a smart card driver architecture into a lower card-dependent level, that formats and exchanges APDUs with the external device, and a higher card-independent level, that uses the API for implementing more sophisticated interfaces. The proposed architecture, along with a set of pilot applications such as secure remote shell, secure web services, local login and digital signature, has been developed and tested on various platforms, proving effectiveness of the new approach.