MasterCard removes SE requirement

http://newsroom.mastercard.com/press-releases/mastercard-to-use-host-card-emulation-hce-for-nfc-based-mobile-payments/

This development shouldn't be interpreted as SEs are useless, I think it rather opens the
payment market for new forms of SEs like U2F and SKS which were designed for the web
and operate at a much higher level than 7816.

Making an SE API for all kinds of SEs is IMO undoable due to middleware issues unless
it builds on that the server do the middleware as well (like SConnect).  However, the
latter effectively means that the client (platform) isn't a part of the plot and then things
gets rather murky.  JavaCard 3 which supports an embedded web-server was launched
a decade ago and still haven't got any traction so this seems to be a dead end.

Anders

Received on Saturday, 22 February 2014 14:15:19 UTC