>NIST/PIV has nothing whatsoever to do with physical transmission or the >physicality of the platform. You can run it on a USB token, a PCMCIA >token, a harddisk, a TPM, a cell-phone or a tom-tom.
In theory that may be right (I don't lnow that much about 781x standards), but an "ID-card" will for practical purposes most likely continue to be in a human-friendly format. At least for the next 10 years or so. What I think NIST shouldn't have done was mixing remote access based on artificial credentials like keys, with physical access regardless if the latter is based on biometrics, keys or a combination of thoose.. Today it seems that USB is the short-term answer for computer usage. Some applications may also use SIM cards. But credit-card sized credential containers is hardly the way forward for remote access. At least I would find it odd if some agencies deploy USB and others put their money on cards because then you create a fragmented system and remote access is really already much too fragmented. What the long-term answer is as we know highly debatable and we may even be facing a quantum leap. Anders _______________________________________________ Muscle mailing list [email protected] http://lists.drizzle.com/mailman/listinfo/muscle
