I believe smartcards (and trusted computing platforms too, btw) aim to solve the following problem:
"How to enforce your own security policy in a hostile environment, not under your own physical control?" Examples: - Smartcard: electronic purse: you cannot increase the amount on your e-purse (unless reloading at the bank). - Trusted computing: DRM: my content cannot be illegally copied on your machine. As soon as the environment is under your won physical control, software only solutions suffice. Regards, Jaap-Henk On Wed, 07 Sep 2005 18:08:25 -0400 Pat Farrell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > 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. > > -- > Pat Farrell > http://www.pfarrell.com -- Jaap-Henk Hoepman | I've got sunshine in my pockets Dept. of Computer Science | Brought it back to spray the day Radboud University Nijmegen | Gry "Rocket" (w) www.cs.ru.nl/~jhh | (m) [EMAIL PROTECTED] (t) +31 24 36 52710/53132 | (f) +31 24 3653137 --------------------------------------------------------------------- The Cryptography Mailing List Unsubscribe by sending "unsubscribe cryptography" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
