Access Control for e-Business on MOPASS

MO(bile) PASS(port) is a consortium lead by Japanese major electric appliance manufacturers for the nextgeneration smart card. Its scope includes the software middleware that bridges between the smart card and real e-Businesses. In fact, the specification of Ticket Authentication Protocol, which provides access control functionality applicable to a wide range of eBusinesses (e.g. digital ticketing, digital content distribution), is under consideration by MOPASS. The specification is open and direct since it is based on a new methodology characterized by user's access-rights being straightforwardly authenticated by PKI. In addition, it covers the functionality of revoking, duplicating and transferring of access-rights in a peer-to-peer manner.