Archive for July 2008

R4: Checking OpenPGP and CA

[Work done from 7th July to 20th July 2008] During this fortnight week we had a meeting with our project supervisor Dr.Chandana Gamage. We discussed about the using USB smart sticks  or normal USB memory sticks for the eID project. (USB smart sticks had internal processor but it is a commercial product). And also we [...]

R4: Preparing for Presentation

[Work done from 7th July to 20th July 2008] We had a weekly discussion with our project supervisor during this period and we mainly discussed about the backed systems that we could use with our project. We learnt about the Kerberos architecture and the related Kerberos protocol that is useful in any authntication based systems. [...]

R4: Some or more, a lot more

[Work done from 7th July to 20th July 2008] During this two week we mainly forcus about the backed technologies in our project. We also discussed with our supervisor Dr.Chandana Gamage regarding the project. And further discussions with our project supervisor Dr.Chandana Gamage we got some valuable points. Following thinks that we discussed with our [...]

R4: PGP, PKI, WS and more…

[Work done from 7th July to 20th July 2008] During this two week period we had a meeting with our project supervisor Dr.Chandana Gamage. During that meeting we discussed the following; 1. Developments so far We discussed about the current status of the project and described our progress in terms of knowledge gained and possible [...]

R3: Problems with PKI

[Work done from 23rd June to 6th July 2008] We had formal discussion with the team members to discuss what we have to do and what each person should take responsibility of. Me and Ramanan looked into using PKI in our system. We looked into systems like GnuPG, OpenPGP and we studied with the internet [...]

R3: Learning Kerberos

[Work done from 23rd June to 6th July 2008] During this fortnight week we had a group meeting and we plane to do some work. And also I studied about the Kerberos Architecture and got to know about that feasibility in our project. Kerberos is good Network Authentication protocol which can be helpful for your [...]

R3: Offline or Online

[Work done from 23rd June to 6th July 2008] We had a group meeting within this period and we made some decisions regarding our project problem domain. Our discussion was based on the following details.The details and the solutions of the problems addressed as follows. For off-line authentication Can carry a digital identity card Or [...]

R3: CardSpace and Kerberos

[Work done from 23rd June to 6th July 2008] During this fortnight week we had a group meeting and we plane to do some work. In this week I did found some existing project similar to our eID project. Microsoft windows “CardSpace “has some similar functionality to our eID system. Also I studied about the [...]

Project Website Launched

We have launched our project web site at our own domain www.project-eid.org. We will be posing our project updates, documentation and other project related information at this website in future. We will also migrate all our past documents to this site. You can also find the details about the researches we are doing and related [...]

Kerberos Architecture

Friends, I found a good Network authentication protocol which can be helpful for our project. Kerberos is a protocol and it has it’s own Architecture. And it is mainly designed to provide strong authentication for client/server applications by using secret-key cryptography. A free implementation of this protocol is available from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. [...]