WebIdentity Technical Specs
Details | Applications | FeaturesTechnical Specifications
- Compliance with the USB 1.1 standards
- Compatibility with USB 2.0
- Unique serial code for each key
- Cryptography algorithms: - triple-DES on board (one-way) - AES 256 bit on board - 256 bit blowfish for client-server communications
- Self-powered: does not use any internal batteries or external power supplies
Hardware device
The WebIdentity hardware device is made up of a hardware key with a USB interface integrating a microchip especially designed for security functions.
The device has the following technical features:
- 8 Kbytes of writeable memory
- Memory access code
- Security: an ASIC circuit makes the simple cloning of the hardware key impossible
- Automatic power supply: it doesn’t use internal batteries or an external power supply
- Programmable: a double access code to information in the device is programmable by the service provider
- Algorithmic queries: There are means of performing algorithmic type queries and not just those which return a static answer.
- Identity code: each key is uniquely customized with a factory supplied identity code for every user.
- Internal memory: 416 bytes of non volatile memory equipped with an access code composed of 16 + 16 bytes.
Software device
From a software point of view, a Software Development Kit (SDK) is supplied which has the purpose of determining the parameters in the device and returning them for insertion into the server database. Moreover, the Software Development Kit includes the ActiveX Server module necessary for the process of identifying the user as well as handling the transactions on the web, and the ActiveX and Plug-In client modules which interact with the ActiveX Server (either one or the other will be used depending on the browser being used on the client).
These are the main software components:
- Cabinet ActiveX Client (CAB)
- Cabinet ActiveX Server (CAB)
- Setup ActiveX Server (EXE)
- Setup Plug-In (EXE)