Re: [PATCH] NFC: Driver for Inside Secure MicroRead NFC chip

From: Arnd Bergmann
Date: Tue Mar 29 2011 - 09:23:07 EST


On Tuesday 29 March 2011, Alan Cox wrote:
> > I was under the impression that NFC was peer-to-peer, so the driver
> > would already be handling both sides potentially.
>
> Your security requirements each side are going to be very different. A
> phone or handheld device is generally single user at a time, the other
> end may well be interacting with many devices at once each with their own
> security context and potentially handling sensitive data (payment
> authorisations for example).

Yes, good point.

Arnd
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