A Security Policy for Access Control to Academic Services Based on Public Key Infrastructures and Smart Cards

Currently, the world over, digital is the main channel of information exchange. In this context of strong dematerialization, many technical and functional problems were raised. These issues affect most business sectors that require information literacy. In relation to the academic world, the administrative management of students, the financial management of registration fees and access rights to various services (catering, boarding school, exam classroom, university library, etc...) require a capital importance. In addition, security is today one of the major problems in the world of digital information. In this title, smart cards are identity carriers that fully contribute to securing access by enabling strong authentication. As such, in this paper we propose to build an architecture based on the use of smart cards and the Public Key infrastructure (PKI). It will allow simultaneous and secure access to different users (Student, Teacher, and Administrator) with different levels of classification.