Smartcard Facilities. Tamper resistant device, highly tested (credit card, GSM card, PKI card…) Low cost. Multiple form factors (ISO 7816 – credit card format, SIM GSM 11.11, USB…). Sufficient cryptographic performances (RSA 2048 bits calculation in 500 ms). Can be issued for millions users (half a billion – 600 millions of smartcard produced in 2001). Can compute multiple EAP protocols. Can be used in various networks (memory size around 128 kb, one Mb with the FLASH technology) |