What are the prospects for smartcard based systems within the U.S.? Such
cards are essentially nonexistent in commerce. Apparently in Europe and
Asia they are widely used, though, instead of the credit cards preferred
by Americans.
semi-smart cards are in wide use over here.
At 10:16 AM 02/23/2000 -0800, Bill Stewart writes:
At 10:14 PM 02/21/2000 -0800, Greg Broiles wrote:
4759063 Blind signature systems (19 Jul 2005)
4529870 Cryptographic identification, financial transaction, and credential
device (16 Jul 2002)
Interesting - I wonder how much of the
At 10:44 PM 2/24/00 +, Ben Laurie wrote:
lcs Mixmaster Remailer wrote:
What are the prospects for smartcard based systems within the U.S.? Such
cards are essentially nonexistent in commerce. Apparently in Europe and
Asia they are widely used, though, instead of the credit cards
current magstripe cards in US have names ... whether they are used or not ...
allow relying party to cross-check name on card with forms of identification
hopefully containing the same name.
One economic model has chipcards in europe for offline transactions as being
more cost effective ...
