We are getting very close to the release of Java Card 3, which should be available within a quarter from now. The impact of this release is very significant, and will introduce an entirely new way to work with smart cards. Before the release, I will discuss a few issues about this new spec. Since […]
Java Card demos at Cartes
The next generation is getting closer than ever, with e forecast release in Q1 2008. Some demos were already present at Cartes, on both Gemalto and Oberthur booths. No major breakthrough in terms of cards, as both of them have been using USB tokens, about which they were not that talkative. The focus, in both […]
What about iCard and gCard?
This year seems to see the arrival of interesting newcomers in the mobile phone market. Apple has started an iPhone that also happens to be an iPod, and Google has recently announced that they will participate to some kind of a gPhone, which includes Google’s client applications. This is nice, but if we think as […]
Happy Birthday, Java Card 2.0 !
I think that today marks the real anniversary of Java Card technology, as the first official release of the Java Card 2.0 specification is dated October 13, 1997. This is just 6 months after the creation of the Java Card Forum, and the result is far from negligible. Many of the concepts that are still […]
Java Card 2.0
I finally found some of the original Java Card 2.0 specifications. It was not all that straightforward, but globally, it was not that difficult, and I should have found all that earlier. The first interesting is that there still is a Java Card 2.0 product page on Sun’s web site. Most of the content is […]
How many Java Card’s in a mobile phone?
There is a big ongoing debate about the future of the SIM, as illustrated by e-Smart’s debate about “SIM, no SIM , super SIM?”. I don’t have the answer, and as a Java Card expert, I am not sure to really care. It seems that most people agree that it is nice to have at […]
New Applications, New Threats, New Countermeasures
Everything starts well. I feel more secure when I speak after people that are more junior than I am. Today, I am speaking just after Jacques Stern. Too bad for my assurance. Still, I do believe in my topic, so I will take the opportunity in this entry to discuss a bit what my message […]
Mesure wins Isabelle Attali award
The 2007 Isabelle Attali award has just been awarded, and this year is again a dual award: one for hard research, and one for more applied research. On the applied side, Mesure has won (i.e., the CNAM partners, Pierre Paradinas, Samia Bouzefrane, and Julien Cordry). But still, as a partner of the project, I feel […]
Plug-and-play
It seems that this year’s Java Card offering at e-Smart was fairly small, so the Java Card session had to be extended to include more topics. One of the presentations, from Gemalto, was about the plug-and-play authentication product. This is not new, and it has been around for a while. Plug and play has been […]
Mesure and more
Trusted Labs is involved in the Mesure project, whose goal is to develop open benchmarks for Java Card. There are few partners to this project (CNAM, INRIA/POPS, and us), and in particular, no major manufacturer. Yet, the idea is here to start a community that will publish some results. Performance is a sensitive piece information […]