[Work done from 9th June to 22nd June 2008]
During the two weeks from 9th June to 22nd June 2008, project related activities our group and myself got involved were mainly related to research on different aspects of the project architecture and the hardware requirements.
PKI
As we plan to implement eID based on a PKI certificate authentication system, we had to study about PKI implementations and how we could use this for our needs. We also had to do some search and research how this could be utilized in offline authentication and other related issues.
Hardware/USB/Smart Card
The other concern we had is related to the needed hardware. The main hardware that we will be in need would be the eID ‘card’. We came up with few other alternative options than that we discussed earliear. One is a Smart Card with USB interface. Other one would a normal USB memory, but that could have a read only portion to hold the certificate/s.
System Design/Project Meetings
We also had project meetings to discuss and decide on possible project architectureas and improve on those. At most of the project meetings we had a lot of more new input from each member thus improveing on our knowledge.