Project eID Blog

We, the team of Project eID, just made this video documentary to help anyone gain a brief idea about our project. We have included many basic details about our project that could serve as a starting point to anyone who is interested in our project.

We are in the process of developing the eID Browser Plug-in. This will be divided into two parts, one plug-in and the second underlying application, which will do the real work. We just discussed about the basic workflow of messages/actions in the browser plugin. I’ll just summerise what we have decided on. Starts with the [...]

I have just finished adding the svn:externals property to our SVN repository at university, to enable pulling the commits from our Project eID repository. We were recently given a Subversion repository for project purposes at our university which is at http://repos.cse.mrt.ac.lk/05/cnwisg2/. But as we are already having setup our Project eID repository at http://svn.project-eid.org/eid/ I [...]

After the meeting with our project supervisor yesterday, we decided to review the two architectures for online authentication mechanism. I’d like to present some of our findings and thoughts on these two in this post. The first architecture is the one that we already had. In that model eID systems stays in the middle in [...]

Select method The select method tells the JCRE if the applet is ready to process requests, by returning a true value. If the applet is not ready to accept processing requests, the select method returns a false value. Deselect method If an applet is selected and you want to select an applet with a different [...]

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. [...]