On Thu, 20 Oct 2005 14:53:57 +0000, cdr said: > Use of smatrcards presents a sociological phenomenon, deserving > further research: unexpectedly large number of computer security > practitioners who don't trust closed source crypto on open hardware > but apparently do trust closed source crypto on closed hardware.
Well, your CPU is also closed source. I am pretty sure than one can do nifty things with a Transmeta CPU for example. The problem with the smartcards is that it is very hard to get a plain chip without signing an NDA. Thanks to the commercial pay TV crackers. Shalom-Salam, Werner _______________________________________________ Gnupg-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users
