Paper Info
Title
An Open Middleware For Smart Cards
Abstract
This paper presents an open and modular middleware for smart cards, providing a simple abstraction of the device to application developers. The software is interoperable across multiple card devices, and portable across various open platforms. The architectural design is centred around the definition of a new API that allows protected access to the storage and cryptographic facilities of a smart card. In the envisioned architecture, a smart card driver architecture is partitioned into a lower card-dependent component, that formats and exchanges APDUs with the external device, and a higher card-independent component, that implements more sophisticated services and interfaces, such as the well known PKCS-11 standard. Each layer can focus on a smaller set of functionality, thus reducing the effort required for the development as well as the testing and maintenance of each component. 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, including Open BSD, Linux, Solaris and Mac OS X, proving effectiveness of the new approach.
Year
Venue
Keywords
2005
COMPUTER SYSTEMS SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING
smart cards, middleware, architecture
Field
DocType
Volume
Middleware,BasicCard,Middleware (distributed applications),Computer security,Computer science,Cryptography,Smart card,Open Smart Card Development Platform,Smart card application protocol data unit,Key (cryptography),Embedded system,Distributed computing
Journal
20
Issue
ISSN
Citations 
6
0267-6192
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
4
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Tommaso Cucinotta147238.23
Marco Di Natale2123791.62
David Corcoran300.68