Smart Card Alliance educational resources for trusted computing

Posted by Ken Y-N on June 16th, 2008 at 01:34pm

I caught a recent announcement from the Smart Card Alliance Educational Institute, offering training either online or classroom-based on smart card technologies and applications.

As part of their EI 201 Advanced Smart Card Business Solutions Course they offer this:

Biometrics and PKI: Covering an overview of biometrics and PKI. Different biometric technologies are presented and their individual advantages and drawbacks discussed. Examples of current commercial products are given. The concepts of public key infrastructure (PKI) are introduced along with its system aspects and trust models. PKI requirements that a smart card must fulfill are also covered and the challenges of a “secure computing environment” are discussed. The participants will be presented with the principles of “trusted computing base” as applied to a model application where biometric based user identification is used to enable the PKI-related functionality on a smart card.

This could be rather useful for those considering how to implement user authentication to a Trusted Platform Module. Read the full syllabus here.

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