Helo, On Sep 2, 2010, at 6:01 PM, Andre Zepezauer wrote: > On Thu, 2010-09-02 at 17:05 +0300, Martin Paljak wrote: >> I believe the reason why smart cards exist is their common, agreed upon form >> factor and the existence of related infrastructure pieces. Like pinpad smart >> card readers. > > Pinpad readers (like all external readers) are good for desktop and > office PCs. In the netbook market they will never become the equipment > of choice. Furthermore there are so many people don't having a desktop > PC but something portable. Even if there portables never leave there > desk. For those people (including me) smarter solutions would be more > appealing than the "[age old] infrastructure pieces". Some of those people (like me) have a pinpad reader on office dest and a pinpad reader at home for doing some operations with some cards (like changing the PIN when I feel like i have to). And a portable reader for the time on the road.
But as you say below, we probably need (and talk about) totally different things. Yes, there are other "smarter" solutions, both technology and business-wise. One of them was Mr. Jobs with the micro SIM move, who created a whole new niche market of micro SIM cutters and mini SIM micro SIM envelopes. Of course there remains the argument, that how often do you need to take a SIM out from the phone and put it somewhere else... But I could understand the grief of someone who broke his phone and would like to take some other phone as a replacement and use the same SIM card.. darn! >> For permanent built-in crypto operations, the TPM chip should be the most >> hip thing currently (at least it was for a while, I don't know the exact >> status of TPM deployment on desktop machines). > > That's exactly what I want: "permanent built-in crypto". If not soldered > on the board, then with good integration at least. Then buy your next portable with a TPM and check out http://trousers.sourceforge.net/ -- Martin Paljak @martinpaljak.net +3725156495 _______________________________________________ opensc-devel mailing list opensc-devel@lists.opensc-project.org http://www.opensc-project.org/mailman/listinfo/opensc-devel
