Anders Rundgren wrote:
we see the start of going out of that through the European Citizen Card
(ECC) standard "CEN TS 15480"
This is something I really hate:
http://www.evs.ee/product/tabid/59/p-165216-cents-15480-22007.aspx
Paying for *open* standards!
In fact, I'm not sure I directed you to the most specifically pertinent
standard. The card interface would be the one that CEN/TC224 is
currently developing (
http://www.etsi.org/WebSite/document/Workshop/Security2006/Security2006S3_2_Helmut_Scherzer.pdf
) based on CWA 14890 which *is* easily available on-line (officially I
believe since it's not a standard, just an agreement). I, in fact mostly
know the French profile of this spec based on what is apparently a
pre-version of the CEN/TC 224 standard, you can have some view of this
on this page
http://www.soliatis.com/index.php?page=ias_ecc_test_suite&path=_
this scheme will get hard competition from a lot of places including
the token vendors who certainly do not want to become replaceable like USB
memory sticks.
You're quite right on this point, this is certainly why there has been
until now so little progress on inter-operable smart cards.
But the same smart card vendors are also able to position themselves on
a market when they are replaceable, when that market is for tens of
millions of units like the one for EMV cards.
And this is where the bait is for this standard, the long term
perspective is to produce millions of ID/Health Care cards for governments.
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