Excellent.  Thanks for the advice :)

On Wed, 2009-06-17 at 13:10 -0500, Timothy J. Miller wrote:

> Daniel Benoy wrote:
> > Being able to open the doors with them may make or break my proposal to 
> > my company that we should issue smart cards to all employees.
> 
> You most likely do *not* want to use smartcard *contact* readers as a 
> physical access control system (PACS), except in special, very 
> low-volume areas.  They tend to be a bit slow to interact with.
> 
> Better is to use a dual interface card with a standard RF proximity 
> interface (non-PKI, I might add) for PACS, and PKI keys loaded on a 
> contact chip for logical access control systems (LACS).
> 
> Dual cards are also far, far easier to integrate into an existing PACS.
> 
> Note that the US Fed PIV smartcard is a dual interface card, with the 
> wireless interface intended for PACS.
> 
> -- Tim
> 
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