On Thu, 2010-09-02 at 18:20 +0300, Martin Paljak wrote: > 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/
And when this portable brakes, can I use the TPM (with keys on it) in a replacement part? _______________________________________________ opensc-devel mailing list opensc-devel@lists.opensc-project.org http://www.opensc-project.org/mailman/listinfo/opensc-devel
