"James A. Donald" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >On 25 Sep 2002 at 18:36, Neil Johnson wrote: >>Hey don't forget you can still buy a smart card reader from >>that most cypherpunkish of babes BRITNEY SPEARS ! Only $30 ! >> >> https://www.visiblevisitors.com/mltest/order_form.asp > >A previous poster suggested that the smart card industry had usuability >problems. If these guys are selling to that market, they must have solved >those problems -- or believe that they have.
All they're doing is reading a URL off a USB dongle (technically a 256-byte I2C memory card plugged into a reader, but in effect the combination is a USB dongle). That's a no-brainer, I can do that with two wires taped to the card contacts and poked into the PC's parallel port, and around 50 bytes of code on the PC. Getting a general-purpose crypto smart card working usefully, now that's a challenge. Peter.
