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Effitic, a french software engineering company, has set up a working demo that demonstrates how public transportation cards could be reloaded at home thanks to SpringCard’s contactless readers.

In this architecture, all the business logic and the security components (SAMSecurity Access Module. A dedicated microprocessor unit that conducts active authenticationThe process whereby a card, terminal or person proves who they are. A fundamental part of many cryptographyThe science of ensuring that messages are secure. Cryptographic systems are based on the concepts of authentication, integrityGuarantee that a data (or code) has not been modified in transit. Integrity is an essential role of cryptography systems., confidentiality and non-repudiation. systems. with a memory or microprocessor card. The SAM is often a smartcardIntegrated-circuit card. This is the standard name for a plastic card holding a silicon chip (an integrated circuit) compliant with the ISO 7816 standards. A common name is smartcard. in the ID-000 form factor. or HSM) are centralised in Effitic’s back-office server. A lightweight JavaA network-oriented programming language invented by Sun Microsystems. Java was specifically designed so that programs could be safely downloaded to remote devices (e.g., Web pages, smart cards, etc.). appletA compact program that can be downloaded quickly and used by a remote computing device. Applets are typically written in Java. runs in a standard web browser to communicate with the smartcardIntegrated-circuit card. This is the standard name for a plastic card holding a silicon chip (an integrated circuit) compliant with the ISO 7816 standards. A common name is smartcard. readerCoupling device or coupler. A device able to communicate with an ICCIntegrated-circuit card. This is the standard name for a plastic card holding a silicon chip (an integrated circuit) compliant with the ISO 7816 standards. A common name is smartcardIntegrated-circuit card. This is the standard name for a plastic card holding a silicon chip (an integrated circuit) compliant with the ISO 7816 standards. A common name is smartcard... This is what everybody calls a smartcardIntegrated-circuit card. This is the standard name for a plastic card holding a silicon chip (an integrated circuit) compliant with the ISO 7816 standards. A common name is smartcard. reader. Technically speaking it could be seen as a gateway between the computer and the card.Coupling device or coupler. A device able to communicate with an ICCIntegrated-circuit card. This is the standard name for a plastic card holding a silicon chip (an integrated circuit) compliant with the ISO 7816 standards. A common name is smartcardIntegrated-circuit card. This is the standard name for a plastic card holding a silicon chip (an integrated circuit) compliant with the ISO 7816 standards. A common name is smartcard... This is what everybody calls a smartcardIntegrated-circuit card. This is the standard name for a plastic card holding a silicon chip (an integrated circuit) compliant with the ISO 7816 standards. A common name is smartcard. readerCoupling device or coupler. A device able to communicate with an ICCIntegrated-circuit card. This is the standard name for a plastic card holding a silicon chip (an integrated circuit) compliant with the ISO 7816 standards. A common name is smartcardIntegrated-circuit card. This is the standard name for a plastic card holding a silicon chip (an integrated circuit) compliant with the ISO 7816 standards. A common name is smartcard... This is what everybody calls a smartcardIntegrated-circuit card. This is the standard name for a plastic card holding a silicon chip (an integrated circuit) compliant with the ISO 7816 standards. A common name is smartcard. reader. Technically speaking it could be seen as a gateway between the computer and the card.. Technically speaking it could be seen as a gateway between the computer and the card. through the PC/SCThe de-facto standard to interface Personal Computers with Smart Cards (and smartcardIntegrated-circuit card. This is the standard name for a plastic card holding a silicon chip (an integrated circuit) compliant with the ISO 7816 standards. A common name is smartcard. readers of course). SpringCard PC/SC Readers comply with this standard. This makes those products usable on most operating systems, using an high-level and standardized APIApplication Programming Interface: A definition of calling conventions through which an application program accesses to other services such as the operating system, drivers, databases, or middleware layers.. middleware. The appletA compact program that can be downloaded quickly and used by a remote computing device. Applets are typically written in Java. installs itself automatically upon first access to the service whatever the system/browser.

The demonstration is typically performed with Calypso cards and a SpringCard Prox’N'Roll PC/SCThe de-facto standard to interface Personal Computers with Smart Cards (and smartcardIntegrated-circuit card. This is the standard name for a plastic card holding a silicon chip (an integrated circuit) compliant with the ISO 7816 standards. A common name is smartcard. readers of course). SpringCard PC/SC Readers comply with this standard. This makes those products usable on most operating systems, using an high-level and standardized APIApplication Programming Interface: A definition of calling conventions through which an application program accesses to other services such as the operating system, drivers, databases, or middleware layers.. contactless readerCoupling device or coupler. A device able to communicate with an ICCIntegrated-circuit card. This is the standard name for a plastic card holding a silicon chip (an integrated circuit) compliant with the ISO 7816 standards. 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This is the standard name for a plastic card holding a silicon chip (an integrated circuit) compliant with the ISO 7816 standards. A common name is smartcard. readers of course). SpringCard PC/SC Readers comply with this standard. This makes those products usable on most operating systems, using an high-level and standardized APIApplication Programming Interface: A definition of calling conventions through which an application program accesses to other services such as the operating system, drivers, databases, or middleware layers.. complies to the CCIDCircuit Card Interface Device. A subset of the USB specification that is the standard for USB based smartcardIntegrated-circuit card. This is the standard name for a plastic card holding a silicon chip (an integrated circuit) compliant with the ISO 7816 standards. A common name is smartcard. readers. standard, a driver is available -and installed automatically in most cases- on current desktop operating systems.

This setup is a cost-effective solution for at-home reloading of public transportation cards. This removes the need for a dual-interface card as the Prox’N'Roll operates contactless (13.56MHz RFIDRadio-frequency identification. This is the general name for any system using radio waves for M2M communication (machine to machine, in our case PCD/VCD to PICCProximity integrated-circuit card. This is the standard name for any contactless cardProximity integrated-circuit card. This is the standard name for any contactless card compliant with the ISO 14443 standards (proximity: less than 10cm). This could either be a smartcardIntegrated-circuit card. This is the standard name for a plastic card holding a silicon chip (an integrated circuit) compliant with the ISO 7816 standards. A common name is smartcard. or a memory card, or also any NFC object running in card emulation mode. Common names are contactless card, or RFID cardProximity integrated-circuit card. 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This is the standard name for any contactless card compliant with the ISO 14443 standards (proximity: less than 10cm). This could either be a smartcardIntegrated-circuit card. This is the standard name for a plastic card holding a silicon chip (an integrated circuit) compliant with the ISO 7816 standards. A common name is smartcard. or a memory card, or also any NFC object running in card emulation mode. Common names are contactless card, or RFID card, NFC tag.., NFC tagProximity integrated-circuit card. This is the standard name for any contactless card compliant with the ISO 14443 standards (proximity: less than 10cm). This could either be a smartcardIntegrated-circuit card. This is the standard name for a plastic card holding a silicon chip (an integrated circuit) compliant with the ISO 7816 standards. A common name is smartcard. or a memory card, or also any NFC object running in card emulation mode. 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It also opens new opportunities and a new approach of user’s experience with his/her contactless cardProximity integrated-circuit card. This is the standard name for any contactless card compliant with the ISO 14443 standards (proximity: less than 10cm). This could either be a smartcardIntegrated-circuit card. This is the standard name for a plastic card holding a silicon chip (an integrated circuit) compliant with the ISO 7816 standards. A common name is smartcard. or a memory card, or also any NFC object running in card emulation mode. Common names are contactless card, or RFID cardProximity integrated-circuit card. This is the standard name for any contactless card compliant with the ISO 14443 standards (proximity: less than 10cm). This could either be a smartcardIntegrated-circuit card. This is the standard name for a plastic card holding a silicon chip (an integrated circuit) compliant with the ISO 7816 standards. 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A common name is smartcard. or a memory card, or also any NFC object running in card emulation mode. Common names are contactless cardProximity integrated-circuit card. This is the standard name for any contactless card compliant with the ISO 14443 standards (proximity: less than 10cm). This could either be a smartcardIntegrated-circuit card. This is the standard name for a plastic card holding a silicon chip (an integrated circuit) compliant with the ISO 7816 standards. A common name is smartcard. or a memory card, or also any NFC object running in card emulation mode. Common names are contactless card, or RFID cardProximity integrated-circuit card. This is the standard name for any contactless card compliant with the ISO 14443 standards (proximity: less than 10cm). This could either be a smartcardIntegrated-circuit card. This is the standard name for a plastic card holding a silicon chip (an integrated circuit) compliant with the ISO 7816 standards. A common name is smartcard. or a memory card, or also any NFC object running in card emulation mode. Common names are contactless card, or RFID card, NFC tagProximity integrated-circuit card. This is the standard name for any contactless card compliant with the ISO 14443 standards (proximity: less than 10cm). This could either be a smartcardIntegrated-circuit card. This is the standard name for a plastic card holding a silicon chip (an integrated circuit) compliant with the ISO 7816 standards. A common name is smartcard. or a memory card, or also any NFC object running in card emulation mode. Common names are contactless card, or RFID card, NFC tag.., NFC tagProximity integrated-circuit card. This is the standard name for any contactless card compliant with the ISO 14443 standards (proximity: less than 10cm). This could either be a smartcardIntegrated-circuit card. 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This is the case for both ISO 14443 and ISO 15693: the carrier frequency is 13.56MHz, leading to a wavelength of 22m. The proximity and vicinity ranges are shorter than this wavelength. mobile phone. In fact, this web-based contactless smartcardIntegrated-circuit card. This is the standard name for a plastic card holding a silicon chip (an integrated circuit) compliant with the ISO 7816 standards. A common name is smartcard. architecture is not limited to transport ticketing but could be the basis of a new generation of innovative projects in various fields such as e-ID/e-gov, loyalty, entertainment and online gaming, events and sport ticketing, etc.

Effitic back-office server communicates with the Prox'N'Roll PC/SC smart card reader thanks to a Java applet

Customer uses his/her credit card to buy a new ticket to be loaded into the Calypso card

The new transport ticket is loaded in the contactless Calypso card. A receipt is sent by e-mail.

Last saturday, SpringCard Prox’N'Roll PC/SCThe de-facto standard to interface Personal Computers with Smart Cards (and smartcardIntegrated-circuit card. This is the standard name for a plastic card holding a silicon chip (an integrated circuit) compliant with the ISO 7816 standards. A common name is smartcard. readers of course). SpringCard PC/SC Readers comply with this standard. This makes those products usable on most operating systems, using an high-level and standardized APIApplication Programming Interface: A definition of calling conventions through which an application program accesses to other services such as the operating system, drivers, databases, or middleware layers.. was the core component of the access control and payment system during the annual gala of french high-school École Centrale d’Électronique (ECE) located in Paris. NXP MifareThis trademark of NXP (formerly Philips Semiconductors) is the generic brand name of their PICC products. Billions of Mifare Classic cards have been deployed since the 90's. This is a family of wired-logic PICCs were data storage is divided into sectors and protected by a proprietary1 stream cipher called CRYPTO1. Every sector is protected by 2 access keys called 'key A' and 'key B'. NXP also offers another family of wired-logic PICCs called Mifare UltraLight (adopted by NFC Forum as Type 2 NFC Tags). Mifare SmartMX (and former Pro/ProX) is a family of microprocessor-based PICCs that may run virtually any smartcard application, typically on top a JavaCard operating system. Mifare Desfire is a particular microprocessor-based PICC that runs a single general-purpose application. UltraLight C chips were embedded in the disposable wristbands (featuring the SpringCard logo) that were worn by 3000 attendees.

Starting from SpringCard SDKSoftware Development Kit. A set of development utilities meant for writing software applications, usually associated with specific environments., ECE students working on the project have written in only a few days a dedicated cashier software (in C# for .NET). A clever use of UltraLight C security capabilities (3-DESData EncryptionA cryptographic procedure whereby a legible message is encrypted and made illegible to all but the holder of the appropriate cryptographic key. Standard. The most widely used secret keyA value that is used with a cryptographic algorithm to encrypt (or sign) data. The longer the key, the more secure the encryptionA cryptographic procedure whereby a legible message is encrypted and made illegible to all but the holder of the appropriate cryptographic key.. encryptionA cryptographic procedure whereby a legible message is encrypted and made illegible to all but the holder of the appropriate cryptographic key. algorithm (orginally developed by IBM in 1977). A strengthened version of DES called triple DESData EncryptionA cryptographic procedure whereby a legible message is encrypted and made illegible to all but the holder of the appropriate cryptographic key. Standard. The most widely used secret keyA value that is used with a cryptographic algorithm to encrypt (or sign) data. The longer the key, the more secure the encryptionA cryptographic procedure whereby a legible message is encrypted and made illegible to all but the holder of the appropriate cryptographic key.. encryptionA cryptographic procedure whereby a legible message is encrypted and made illegible to all but the holder of the appropriate cryptographic key. algorithm (orginally developed by IBM in 1977). A strengthened version of DES called triple DES (or 3DES) is commonly used in bank cards. (or 3DESData EncryptionA cryptographic procedure whereby a legible message is encrypted and made illegible to all but the holder of the appropriate cryptographic key. Standard. The most widely used secret keyA value that is used with a cryptographic algorithm to encrypt (or sign) data. The longer the key, the more secure the encryptionA cryptographic procedure whereby a legible message is encrypted and made illegible to all but the holder of the appropriate cryptographic key.. encryptionA cryptographic procedure whereby a legible message is encrypted and made illegible to all but the holder of the appropriate cryptographic key. algorithm (orginally developed by IBM in 1977). A strengthened version of DES called triple DESData EncryptionA cryptographic procedure whereby a legible message is encrypted and made illegible to all but the holder of the appropriate cryptographic key. Standard. The most widely used secret keyA value that is used with a cryptographic algorithm to encrypt (or sign) data. The longer the key, the more secure the encryptionA cryptographic procedure whereby a legible message is encrypted and made illegible to all but the holder of the appropriate cryptographic key.. encryptionA cryptographic procedure whereby a legible message is encrypted and made illegible to all but the holder of the appropriate cryptographic key. algorithm (orginally developed by IBM in 1977). A strengthened version of DES called triple DES (or 3DES) is commonly used in bank cards. (or 3DES) is commonly used in bank cards.) is commonly used in bank cards. authenticationThe process whereby a card, terminal or person proves who they are. A fundamental part of many cryptographyThe science of ensuring that messages are secure. Cryptographic systems are based on the concepts of authentication, integrityGuarantee that a data (or code) has not been modified in transit. Integrity is an essential role of cryptography systems., confidentiality and non-repudiation. systems.) allowed them to make sure that no money could be lost during the event.

The team appears in a short video that aims to promote the concept :