Smart Card

Full Title or Meme

A User Device in the shape of a credit card that contains (at a minimum) a communications channel and secure store and processing with user secrets.

Solutions

• All solutions depend on Late Binding Tokens that "account at a particular origin (of the Relying Party, such as http://www.company.com) the device creates a new key pair usable only at that origin and gives the origin the public key to associate with the account."

PIV Card

• The PIV card is the first instantiation of Personal Identity Verification (PIV) user credential used for access to US government resources both digital and physical.
• Later the concept of Derived Credential was created to extend the capability of PIV into other form factors, such as Smart Phones.