MESURE Tool to benchmark Java Card platforms

The advent of the Java Card standard has been a major turning point in smart card technology. With the growing acceptance of this standard, understanding the performance behavior of these platforms is becoming crucial. To meet this need, we present in this paper a novel benchmarking framework to test and evaluate the performance of Java Card platforms. MESURE tool is the first framework which accuracy and effectiveness are independent from the particular Java Card platform tested and CAD used.Comment: International Journal of Computer Science Issues, Volume 1, pp49-57, August 200

Secure Method Invocation in JASON

We describe the Secure Method Invocation (SMI) framework implemented for Jason, our Javacard As Secure Objects Networks platform. Jason realises the secure object store paradigm, that reconciles the card-as-storage-element and card-as-processing-element views. In this paradigm, smart cards are viewed as secure containers for objects, whose methods can be called straightforwardly and securely using SMI. Jason is currently being developed as a middleware layer that securely interconnects an arbitrary number of smart cards, terminals and back-office systems over the Internet

The simplicity project: easing the burden of using complex and heterogeneous ICT devices and services

As of today, to exploit the variety of different "services", users need to configure each of their devices by using different procedures and need to explicitly select among heterogeneous access technologies and protocols. In addition to that, users are authenticated and charged by different means. The lack of implicit human computer interaction, context-awareness and standardisation places an enormous burden of complexity on the shoulders of the final users. The IST-Simplicity project aims at leveraging such problems by: i) automatically creating and customizing a user communication space; ii) adapting services to user terminal characteristics and to users preferences; iii) orchestrating network capabilities. The aim of this paper is to present the technical framework of the IST-Simplicity project. This paper is a thorough analysis and qualitative evaluation of the different technologies, standards and works presented in the literature related to the Simplicity system to be developed

Testing a Java Card applet using the LIME Interface Test Bench : a case study

The LIME Interface Test Bench is a collection of tools that allow to compile programs in a way such that they monitor interface specifications at runtime in Java and C programs. Specifications can be made using the LIME specification language. Another part of the LIME Interface Test Bench is the LIME Concolic Testing tool (LCT), which uses a combination of concrete and symbolic execution to explore large number of control flow paths in a program or parts of a program. The Java Card technology allows to use a limited subset of Java to develop applets that run on Smart Cards. These applets communicate with an off-card application using a simple packet-based protocol. This report describes a case study, in which the LIME Interface Test Bench was used to test a Java Card applet. The case study uses the "logical channels demo" applet, which is part of the Java Card Development Kit [1]. Ten different specifications were added to this applet. In order to use the applet in a realistic environment, an off-card application for the applet was developed. This off-card application was tested using LCT

Towards a General Framework for Formal Reasoning about Java Bytecode Transformation

Program transformation has gained a wide interest since it is used for several purposes: altering semantics of a program, adding features to a program or performing optimizations. In this paper we focus on program transformations at the bytecode level. Because these transformations may introduce errors, our goal is to provide a formal way to verify the update and establish its correctness. The formal framework presented includes a definition of a formal semantics of updates which is the base of a static verification and a scheme based on Hoare triples and weakest precondition calculus to reason about behavioral aspects in bytecode transformationComment: In Proceedings SCSS 2012, arXiv:1307.802