Meet us at l’Atelier in Paris.

L’Atelier is a Paris based technological information group, also active in the US and Asia. L’Atelier is owned by BNP-Paribas bank , and is quite unique in its focus on mobility applications.

KerPass presentation will take place on the 29th May 2007 at 09:00. Depending upon the participants, presentation is most likely to be held in French. Speakers however are fluent in English and will be pleased to answer to your questions in that language.

Participants need to register on the atelier website following the red arrow link.

Will NFC emerge ?

As others we are quite interested in the possibilities opened by the near field communication interface expected to be on a fair number of european smart phones by year 2011-2012. Our interest was initially sparked by questions asking us how the KerPass mobile transaction validation solution was related to the proximity payment systems based on the NFC technologies. As of today, there is no relation in between those two solutions except that both deal with personal transaction validation. Meanwhile in Japan and other advanced Asian countries real world point of sale payment system allow to use a mobile phone as a contactless payment card , the rest of the world is engaged in lengthy field pilot trials of payment/ticketing systems based on much the same technologies. In what follows we rapidly mention what capabilities NFC add to the ubiquituous smartphone, and mention our view that point of sale transaction validation maybe tackled as efficiently leveraging what mobile phones already have.

One time password (Event or Time Synchronous …)

Search queries as tracted by this blog statistic system have shown us that quite a few people have ended here in search of information on which of this 2 one time password system was the best if any. We believe than when applicable , time synchronous one time password delivers more security than event synchronous. Following are some explanations on where the added value is coming from.