e-Smart, day 3. e-Smart is over. I did not manage to attend a lot of sessions, but I found a few interesting things. I looked back at the things I commented on, and I found only three conclusions:
- I am obsessed by fault induction, but there is hope for a cure, at both the software and hardware level.
- High-capacity smart cards will start with old ideas, but we may be lucky enough to get new ones
- People are using several Java Card cards together (the grid, the Radius server), which is a funny thing to do.
In my car, I thought a little bit of what fun applications we could do, and I found that GPG offers interesting ideas:
- I miss GPG on my gmail account, and I would be so happy to have it, espcially with my private key on a smart card. Not an easy case of mashup with this application, but definitely a killer demo: “And now, I stick my smart card, and I see the mail decrypted”.
- I would like to have my own PGP key server sometimes, which could be on the same card. I could automatically accept blog comments if they are signed with an appropriate key.
I don’t know enough about GPG to figure out if this is even remotely feasible, but I will take a quick look.
Finally, there are at least two more papers that I want to talk about: the one from Alexandre Courbot (who won the Java Card Forum award), and the one from Wojciech Mostowski, who was selected for the same prize. But I want to think a little bit more about them before to do so.
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