On Wed, Sep 07, 2005 at 06:08:25PM -0400, Pat Farrell wrote: > Something tells me that soon is not gonna happen in what I would > call soon. Smartcards (the smart part) were moderately interesting > when there was no networking. We've been at ubiquitous networking > for many years.
We also have ubiquitous networking of systems which are vulnerable and frequently compromised. Smartcard + reader is a hardened cryptographic compartment where you can still trust what you see on the reader display, and that nobody can sniff what is entered on the keypad. Such a system can be safely connected to an insecure, networked machine. > Is there a real problem that they uniquely solve, sufficient > to drive the building of the needed infrastructure? > I don't see it, and I'd love to be made smarter. -- Eugen* Leitl <a href="http://leitl.org";>leitl</a> ______________________________________________________________ ICBM: 48.07100, 11.36820 http://www.leitl.org 8B29F6BE: 099D 78BA 2FD3 B014 B08A 7779 75B0 2443 8B29 F6BE
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