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

From: Alan Cox
Date: Tue Mar 29 2011 - 08:22:48 EST


> 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).

Alan
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