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Java Ring
Java Ring
Java Ring
HISTORICAL BACKGROUND
JAVA RINGWHAT IS IT?? INSIDE JAVA RING
JAVA CONNECTION
USE OF JAVA RING ADVANTAGES
CONCLUSION
In the summer of 1989, Dallas Semiconductor Corp. produced the first stainless-steel-encapsulated memory devices utilizing the Dallas Semiconductor 1-Wire communication protocol.
By 1990, this protocol had been refined and employed in a variety of self-contained memory devices. Originally called "touch memory" devices, they were later renamed "iButtons."
One of the first impressive devices powered by the Java Card technology came in the form of now famous Java Rings at the Sun's JavaOne conference, in March 1998.
The Java Ring is a wearable computer that can be used to authenticate users to services on the Internet. A user only has to push the ring on his/her finger on a Java Ring reader for about a second. The key issue about a wearable computer is not whether it is a ring or another form factor: the deciding point is that we will always have it with us. Many aspects of computing change once there is no need to go to a special room to get at the computer.
Java Ring is a stainless-steel ring, 16-millimeters (0.6 inches) in diameter, that houses a 1-million-transistor processor, called an iButton. The ring has 134 KB of RAM, 32 KB of ROM
A Java Ring is a finger ring that contains small microprocessor with built-in capabilities for the user. stainless-steel iButton Java virtual machine
applets (little application programs) Real Time Clock The rings were built by Dallas Semiconductor.
A Small Microprocessor
iButton Components
An iButton uses its stainless steel
can :
It is an electronic communications interface. Each can has a data contact, called the 'lid', and a ground contact, called the 'base'. Each of these contacts is connected to the silicon chip inside.
Grommet :
The two contacts are separated by a polypropylene grommet.
Layout of iButton
Types of iButton
Memory iButton
Java Powered Cryptographic iButton Thermochron iButton
Cryptographic iButton
Internal details
You simply touch iButton to a Blue Dot Receptor These receptors uses 1-wire communication protocol
for data transfer
JVM
It supports Java card 2.0 specification
It allows the Java Ring to navigate through Java
Operating environment
WORKING
Java ring is programmed with the applets acoording
to our application. For specific class of user specific java applets is preloaded in to the java ring. All the information of the user is stored in the java ring. User simply presses the signet of the java ring against the blue dot receptor and the system connected to the receptor performs the function that the applet instructs to .
SECURITY
This barrier substrate and the triple-layer metal
construction techniques employed in the silicon fabrication effectively deny access to the data stored in the NVRAM. If any attempt is made to penetrate these barriers, the NVRAM data is immediately erased. Java rings are authorized through Personal Identification Numbers (PINs) so that no one can steal a person's ring and use that ring.
Java Connection
With experience designing the E-Commerce operating
system and VM for the Crypto iButton hardware platform. With a Java iButton, a vast number of existing Java programmers could easily learn to write applets that could be compiled with the standard tools available from Sun Microsystems, loaded into the Java iButton, and run on demand to support a wide variety of financial applications. The Java Card 2.0 specification provided the opportunity to implement a useful version of the JVM and runtime environment with the limited resources available to a small processor.
authentication Storage vault for user names and passwords User profile for rapid Internet form-filling Digital signatures for e-commerce United States Postal Service Postal Security Device for PC Postage downloadable over the Internet Digital photo ID and fingerprint biometrics Thermochron applications
Advantages
Java ring is wearable
Conclusions
Latest Technology
References
http://www.javaworld.com
http://www.electronics.howstuffworks.com
http://www.people.uchicago.ed.
http://www.google.com.
http://www.mindprod.com/jgloss/javaring.html
http://www.useit.com/papers/javaring.html