On Aug 18, 2011, at 9:19 40PM, Bob Lloyd wrote:
> Has anyone performed an analysis of the security of any of the available
> smart card reader/external pin pad solutions? Are they effective at keeping
> the pin from being accessible at the host to which the reader is connected?
> Does anyone have any concerns about the security of these products? If you
> were to test the security of such a solution, any suggestions as to what
> you'd look for or would be concerned about?
>
The question you've asked is unanswerable because you haven't
said anything about what you want to protect and against whom.
Are you talking about chip-and-pin credit cards in a store?
Turnstile access to a high-security facility? Contact or
contactless cards? Log in to a workstation? To a laptop?
--Steve Bellovin, https://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb
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