Most major cell phone manufacturers have been releasing cell phones equipped with Near Field Communication (NFC). At the same time there is also increasing use of mobile payments and user verification with the use of the NFC technology. These trends indicate both the increasing popularity and great potential for increased use of NFC in today’s society. As a result NFC has a huge potential to simplify our everyday tasks, ranging from paying for items to accessing our office or home. In this context we will focus on using NFC together with a Power over Ethernet (PoE) powered circuit board and NFC reader to realize a simple system for granting access to open a locked door. One of the purposes of this realization is to explore what services can be realized when such a system is connected to the home/building network and connected to the Internet. A second purpose is to learn how to use network attached devices, as the concept of the Internet of Things is considered by many to be a driving force in the next generation Internet. This project uses very in expensive and low power hardware, as the number of devices is potentially very large and thus in order to minimize the technology’s impact on the environment we must consider how to minimize the power used – while maintaining the desired user functionality. This bachelor’s thesis project made it possible for a PoE powered circuit board containing a MSP430 microcontroller to work along with a NFC reader, which was connected through the Serial Peripheral Interface (SPI). We hope that the end result of this project will lead to a simpler life by exploiting this increasingly ubiquitous technology. For example, a homeowner could send a one-time key to a repair person who is coming to fix their sink. Similarly a homeowner could send a key to their neighbor which is valid for two weeks so that their neighbor could come into their home to water the plants while they are away on vacation. Another example is lending your apartment key to a friend while you are out of town. / Det blir allt vanligare med närfältskommunikation (NFC) i dagens samhälle, mobiltelefons-tillverkarna börjar utveckla nya telefoner med NFC teknik inbyggd, samtidigt som användningen av NFC ökat. Det sker även en utveckling inom mobila betalningar och användar-verifiering med användning av NFC, då NFC förenklar detta. Med detta sagt kommer vi att arbeta med detta i detta kandidatexamens-arbete där vi fokuserar på NFC samt Power over Ethernet som använder MSP430 chippet som kärna. Med dessa enheter kombinerade kommer en enkel rörelse med ett NFC kort över en NFC läsare som sedan skall ge åtkomst till en låst dörr. Detta i större kombination med en Internetuppkoppling kunna ge ägaren möjligheten att kunna skicka ut dörrnycklar till andra användare. I detta kandidatexamensarbete gjorde vi det möjligt för ett PoE kretskort bestående av ett MPS430 mikroprocessor att samarbeta med en NFC läsare genom SPI protokollet. Genom att utveckla detta projekt hoppas vi att vårt slutresultat leder till en enklare delning av nycklar med hjälp av denna teknologi.

La croissance exponentielle dans l’utilisation du réseau Internet ainsi que l’apparition de nouveaux types d’applications ont augmenté les contraintes du réseau en termes de sécurité. Depuis quelques années, les techniques biométriques ont prouvé une grande précision et fiabilité et ont été utilisées dans plusieurs domaines afin de sécuriser l’accès à différentes ressources. Des solutions intégrant des agents et des systèmes multi-agents (SMA) ont aussi prouvé leur efficacité pour la résolution de nombreux problèmes dans les réeaux. Nous proposons un modèle « IrisCrptoAgentSystem » (ICAS) basé sur la méthode biométrique pour l’authentification utilisant l’iris de l’œil et la méthode de cryptographie asymétrique utilisant l’algorithme « Rivest-Shamir-Adleman » (RSA), et en intégrant des agents. Ce modèle doit assurer un accès sécurisé aux informations et garantir la protection des informations confidentielles. Notre travail porte sur la mise en place de nouvelles méthodes dans le modèle d’authentification biométrique afin de donner plus d’efficacité à notre modèle ICAS. Nous introduisons des aspects prétopologiques dans l’élaboration de la hiérarchie indexée pour classer les gabarits DHVA. Notre approche consiste à améliorer les méthodes relatives à la localisation des contours externe et interne de l’iris. / The exponential growth in the use of the Internet as well as the emergence of new types of applications has increased the network’s constraints in terms f security. Fort the last several years, biometric techniques have proven their applicability and reliability in providing secure access to shared resources in different domains. Furthermore, software agents and multi-agent systems (MAS) have evidently been efficient in resolving several problems in network. Therefore, the aim of this research is to propose a model “IrisCryptoAgentSystem” (ICAS) that is based on a biometric method for authentication using the iris of the eyes and an asymmetric cryptography method using “Rivest-Shamir-Adleman” (RSA) in an agent-based architecture. This model should provide secure access to information and ensure the protection of confidential information. Therefore, our work focuses on the development of new methods in biometric autheitcation in order to provide greater efficiency in the ICAS model. We introduce pretopological aspects in the development of the indexed hierarchy to classify DHVA templates. Our approach aims to improve the existing methods for the localization of the external and the internal edges of the iris.

The thesis ”Rating of security business information” is focused on creating metrics in order to assess security of an information system of the company Tech4sec, spol.s.r.o. Risks of the information system and their impact on economy of the company are elaborated by application of the created metrics. To build the part of IS/IT strategy of the company that leads to elimitation of the risks found is dealt with in the thesis as well.