desing of a university identification card by means of smarts cards

Abstract

This article presents the design of a university identification card by means of smart cards. This design is based on a multipurpose application and the security is implemented into the card’s microchip by means of elliptic curves over GF (2163). The card is designed using BasicCards, which allow the designer of the application to determine the parameters related to the security and the generation of keys, for which the resources of hardware available in the smart card, the level of security and the procedures of verification must be considered. To check the functionality and the security of the designed card, several tests were carried out on the three developed applications: administrator, medical service and university sport center. From the consideration of the wide flexibility in the implementation and the high level of security for these three applications, it follows that the smart cards may be regarded as the most efficient solution to control all activities and procedures carried out in the university campus; that is, an intelligent card is the best solution to carry out the identification and the control of access and for the benefit of services when it exists a variety of services and users.