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Explore how the RFID reader and WWW collaborate seamlessly in a PDA application, enhancing security with digital signing and CAB files. Learn about CABWiz and Microsoft’s encryption methods.
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Integration: The RFID Reader and the WWW Working Together in one Application on the PDA February 28, 2007
.cab file • CAB is the Microsoft Windows native compressed archive format • Supports • Compression • DEFLATE: invented by Phil Katz, the author of the ZIP file format. • Quantum, licensed from David Stafford, the author of the Quantum archiver. • LZX, invented by Jonathan Forbes and Tomi Poutanen, given to Microsoft when Jonathan joined the company. • Digital Signing
Windows Mobile 2005 Security Model • Signatures: • “Microsoft’s interest is strictly to provide the most unified application security model possible so that a single signing process will allow you to deploy your application on the greatest possible number of Windows Mobile Devices.” • $431/year for the cheapest certificate from Verisign, and a minimum of $200 per logo certification test makes for a very expensive application.
CABWIZ • CABWiz is used to create .cab files for Pocket PC applications. • Syntax: cabwiz.exe "inf_file" • http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa459011.aspx
Visual Studio and WM 5.0 • http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/windowsmobile/bb264341.aspx