The Marine Corps tried this a couple of years ago - cards did not work under "field conditions" worth a darn - found they were , shall we say "sensitive to heat"- now if asbestos wasnt so "difficult" to wotk with - we might have a solution here.
Gord Jenkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/20011026/pl/tech_smartcards_military_dc_1.html > > .... > > "The U.S. defense department has ordered chip-based ID cards for 4.3 > million military > personnel over the next 18 months to tighten security on access to > buildings, including the > Pentagon (news - web sites), and to computer networks, including > access to encrypted > e-mail and online transactions." > > .... > > ``This is extremely important, not only to us, but to the whole smart > card industry. It's the > biggest Java-based smart card order yet,'' ActivCard Senior Vice > President Tom Arthur told > Reuters at annual chip card congress Cartes 2001.' > > For help on using this list (especially unsubscribing), send a message to > "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" with one line of text: "help". > > > --------------------------------------------- --------------------------------------------------------------------- The Cryptography Mailing List Unsubscribe by sending "unsubscribe cryptography" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]