Friday 2 November 2012
First CC EAL7 certified smart card - Samsung
Samsung has developed the world's first Common Criteria EAL7 certified smart card. This will certainly help boost the perception of the smart card as Trusted Execution Environment (TEE), and will only be good for m-commerce.
OTI COPNI wave - mobile NFC plug-in module
OTI has demonstrated impressive out-of-the box thinking with this NFC plug-in module for mobile devices. Basically, if your phone has an audio stereo jack, you can have mobile NFC.
Now the only questions are: which mobile OSes will OTI support, and will the API be open?
If only a few mobile OSes are supported within the first year (or two), then the API had better be open... A closed API would mean that freelance/community developers won't be able to fill the software gap for this device and some will opt for creating competing - and most likely open-source - solutions. This has already happened with mobile phones. Furthermore, integrated chips containing NFC controller+secure element are becoming readily available, as are NFC software libraries, so the entry threshold to the market is clearly not high.
If only a few mobile OSes are supported within the first year (or two), then the API had better be open... A closed API would mean that freelance/community developers won't be able to fill the software gap for this device and some will opt for creating competing - and most likely open-source - solutions. This has already happened with mobile phones. Furthermore, integrated chips containing NFC controller+secure element are becoming readily available, as are NFC software libraries, so the entry threshold to the market is clearly not high.
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