RACS: Remote APDU call secure creating trust for the internet

Author

Urien, Pascal

Author_Institution

LTCI, Telecom ParisTech, Paris, France

fYear

2015

Firstpage

351

Lastpage

357

Abstract

This paper presents the emerging RACS (Remote APDU Call Secure) protocol, whose goal is the virtualization of secure elements, i.e. remote use of software applications running in these tamper resistant devices. These secure microcontrollers, shipped per billion, are usually used by smartcards or embedded in NFC (Near Field Communication) chips. In a connected world context (always on and ubiquitous internet access), mobile devices (smartphones, tablets...) or virtual machines (VM) could use RACS when trustworthy computing is requested, typically for cryptographic operations. The main RACS concept is to host secure elements in dedicated servers and to transport ISO7816 messages over a TLS/TCP/IP stack. This paper details RACS features and its security policy guideline. First experimental implementations are reviewed both for servers and clients.

Keywords

Internet; cryptographic protocols; microcontrollers; mobile computing; mobile handsets; trusted computing; virtual machines; ISO7816 messages transportation; Internet trust; NFC chips; RACS protocol; TLS-TCP-IP stack; cryptographic operations; mobile devices; near field communication chips; remote APDU call secure protocol; secure element virtualization; secure microcontrollers; security policy guideline; software applications; tamper resistant devices; trustworthy computing; ubiquitous Internet access; virtual machines; Cryptography; Internet; Protocols; Servers; Software; Standards; RACS; Secure Elements; Security; TLS;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Collaboration Technologies and Systems (CTS), 2015 International Conference on

Conference_Location

Atlanta, GA

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-7647-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CTS.2015.7210448

Filename

7210448