Smartcards

Lockstep can help develop strategies for smartcards around various themes, such as using them as containers for digital credentials, hardening SSL and other protocols through mutual authentication, streamlining and transforming PKI using embedded keys, and anonymising health records, government transactions, and other services.

Lockstep researches novel security and privacy solutions based on smartcards and embedded PKI. Lockstep's concepts represent true breakthroughs in Internet security and consumer privacy. Since 2005 our proposals for anonymous e-health records, Internet voting, and national identity protection have been presented to numberous international and peer-reviewed conferences.

Lockstep has been engaged to give smartcard advice by clients including:

Office of the Federal Privacy Commissioner
The Trust Centre
South Australia Department of Health
National eHealth Transition Authority (NeHTA)
Australian Government Information Management Office (AGIMO)

In late 2005, Stephen was engaged by AGIMO as Consulting Editor on the new Australian Government Smartcard Framework. He contributed new material on the business benefits of smartcards, the smartcard technology stack, interface specifications, and delivered recommendations on the adoption of FIPS 201. See http://www.agimo.gov.au/infrastructure/smart_cards.