smartcards: guest speaker on thursday

[peter honeyman]

this thursday, eecs 598-2 (smartcards) will have a guest lecturer:
david corcoran, from purdue and the muscle ("movement for the use of
smart cards in the linux environment") project.

the lecture is open to all; room 1003 at 11:30.

see http://www.citi.umich.edu/eecs598/ for details.

peter

The Smartcard Puzzle: piecing it all together

David Corcoran

MUSCLE Project, Lafayette, Indiana
corc...@linuxnet.com

Smartcards have and will continue to make their ways into our lives.
They have matured from basic devices used in proprietary mechanisms to
more wide spread use requiring interoperability and standards. During
this maturity several open standards have arised in hopes to create a
global usage of these devices far beyond their original intended
purposes. This seminar will discuss how these standards have evolved
and how they work together to create a wide-spread smartcard subsystem
that works in a heterogeneous fashion. The subsystem will be explained
from it's lowest level all the way up the stack to the application
level to help make sense of acronyms such as PC/SC, OCF, PKCS-11, CSP,
SSP, and ISO7816. Attendees should leave with a clear understanding of
smartcard subsystems, and acquire a basic knowledge needed in beginning
smartcard programming.

David Corcoran is a senior undergraduate student studying at Purdue
University. He is the founder of the MUSCLE project designed to allow
smartcard applications to be used under Unix and Macintosh operating
systems.