.......die Zukunft steht gut für smart cards. In 5 Jahren kommt keiner ohne die Dinger mehr aus dem Haus.
Folgende Meldung fand ich heute. nur eine von vielen.
European Truckers To Be Outfitted With Smart Cards
The European Commission will use high-end smart cards to keep track of whether truck drivers are spending too many hours on the road or flouting speed limits. In regulations published yesterday, the EC is mandating that, starting in two years, all new trucks registered in the European Union come equipped with smart card readers as part of new digital recording equipment. The digital equipment will replace more easily fooled mechanical "tachographs" now common on trucks in Europe to keep tabs on truckers. The smart cards will store digital certificates on each driver, who will authenticate himself to the recording equipment by inserting his card into one of two slots in the reader before hitting the road. The cards, which will be issued by government agencies within the EU’s 15 member states, will also store driver’s license information and record such data as the distance the driver traveled during the day and any attempts made to tamper with the motion detector or other parts of the recording equipment. Police officers who conduct road checks will get their own cards, which they can insert into the reader’s second slot to access data both on the driver’s card and the recording equipment itself. "The data cannot be manipulated as it can be today, and the (driver’s) card can be verified," says Andreas Schauer, a product manager for Munich-based card vendor Giesecke & Devrient. "It’s not possible to produce a fake card--not without a reasonable amount of work." Of course, the system isn’t foolproof. Drivers don’t need to enter a personal identification number and could use their colleague’s card to extend their time behind the wheel. The EU will not require older rigs to be retrofitted, so many truckers could go several more years without carrying the new tachograph cards at all. Still, the project is considered important, in part because the cards will support sophisticated encryption technology. "It’s a PKI card, and the market for PKI cards is not that big," says Schauer, who estimates agencies will issue as many as 10 million digital tachograph cards over the next five years. In addition to drivers and officers, representatives of trucking companies and equipment repair shops will also get cards. Besides G&D, at least one other card vendor, SchlumbergerSema, will seek to supply the cards.
( 2002-08-06 )
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