On Tue, Nov 14, 2006 at 08:10:40PM -0600, Stephen R Marenka wrote: > On Tue, Nov 14, 2006 at 10:58:38PM +0000, Floris Bruynooghe wrote: > > I don't see what's so wrong with a smart card or so. GnuPG cards do > > exist already, and is it so much to need a card reader? If the > > project is shelling out the money anyway they could easily include the > > card readers too. > > Cards are very portable, card readers much less so.
Sorry, that's not correct; if you can carry a USB flash thing, you can carry a USB smartcard reader. See http://www.gemplus.com/products/gempckey/ for one example of such a device (which is even marketed as supported under 'DEBIAN "Sarge"'(sic), so there). Note that those small readers do require the GSM-style mini smartcards, not the creditcard-sized regular smartcard; but the technology behind the two is the same anyway. Not that I'm convinced that requiring particular bits of hardware is going to add /that/ much to our security, but that's a different matter... -- <Lo-lan-do> Home is where you have to wash the dishes. -- #debian-devel, Freenode, 2004-09-22 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
