On Wednesday 23 May 2007 14:17:22 Stefan Engelbert wrote: > ... and other biometric and personal data. This is quite cool so > whenever you enter a supermarket they can welcome you by name on a big > screen like: > > "Welcome Martin, nice to see you again. Last time you bought sausages > -why don't you go today for the steaks?"
that is technically not feasible - at least german passports have random serials etc. so the only data that can be used for identifiying is only available after basic authentication based on MRZ. I see way too much fud without proper knowledge about rfid on the net, so lets stick to the facts on this list. that doesn't make me a fan of rfid passports. you could snoop all transactions happening at a control point 7+m away for example, that wouldn't be nice. and of course for the problem it claims to solve, it is by far too expensive as solution, the alternatives like 2dimensional bar codes would have been nice as well and much, much, much cheaper. and less complex by far! Regards, Andreas _______________________________________________ opensc-devel mailing list opensc-devel@lists.opensc-project.org http://www.opensc-project.org/mailman/listinfo/opensc-devel
