Re: Difference between TCPA-Hardware and a smart card (was: example:secure computing kernel needed)

2003-12-22 Thread Ian Grigg
Bill Stewart wrote: > > >At 09:38 AM 12/16/2003 -0500, Ian Grigg wrote: > > > >>In the late nineties, the smart card world > >>worked out that each smart card was so expensive, > >>it would only work if the issuer could do multiple > >>apps on each card. That is, if they could share > >>the cost

Re: Difference between TCPA-Hardware and a smart card (was: example:secure computing kernel needed)

2003-12-22 Thread Bill Stewart
At 09:38 AM 12/16/2003 -0500, Ian Grigg wrote: In the late nineties, the smart card world worked out that each smart card was so expensive, it would only work if the issuer could do multiple apps on each card. That is, if they could share the cost with different uses (or users). Of course, at th

Re: Difference between TCPA-Hardware and a smart card (was: example:secure computing kernel needed)

2003-12-20 Thread Anne & Lynn Wheeler
At 09:38 AM 12/16/2003 -0500, Ian Grigg wrote: In the late nineties, the smart card world worked out that each smart card was so expensive, it would only work if the issuer could do multiple apps on each card. That is, if they could share the cost with different uses (or users). This resulted in

Re: Difference between TCPA-Hardware and a smart card (was: example:secure computing kernel needed)

2003-12-18 Thread Ian Grigg
Stefan Lucks wrote: > > On Mon, 15 Dec 2003, Jerrold Leichter wrote: > > > | This is quite an advantage of smart cards. > > However, this advantage is there only because there are so few smart cards, > > and so few smart card enabled applications, around. > > Strangely enough, Carl Ellison assum