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Wednesday, June 28, 2006
Identify yourself via your phone
The wallet, keys and ID/credit cards are some of the more important things we all bring along almost wherever we go, and Sweden's Smarttrust and a number of its bank customers have decided on a (local?) standard for how at least identification shall be handled via mobile phones.
The SIM card will store a certificate and when accessing a service needing authentication the user enters his/her phone number, a control code and a 6 digit PIN code that's tied to the SIM card. Sounds like a lot to enter, but it's at least only digits.
After this a signed certificate is sent to the service where it's verified.
I assume all transactions are encrypted as well, or else it's still not secure enough.
The actual transactions are then supposed to be done via a PC, but I would like it to be extended to also support mobile services, so that one could pay with the phone, fill up the account one's payment/credit card is tied to etc.
MOBILEN SKA BLI ID-KORT NÄSTA ÅR - Ny Teknik
The article is in Swedish.
The SIM card will store a certificate and when accessing a service needing authentication the user enters his/her phone number, a control code and a 6 digit PIN code that's tied to the SIM card. Sounds like a lot to enter, but it's at least only digits.
After this a signed certificate is sent to the service where it's verified.
I assume all transactions are encrypted as well, or else it's still not secure enough.
The actual transactions are then supposed to be done via a PC, but I would like it to be extended to also support mobile services, so that one could pay with the phone, fill up the account one's payment/credit card is tied to etc.
MOBILEN SKA BLI ID-KORT NÄSTA ÅR - Ny Teknik
The article is in Swedish.
