I remember looking at possibility at adding tamper resisistent hardware
chip to PCs back in 83 or 84 time frame (aka the TCPA idea for PCs is going
on at least 20 years old now). It was the first time I ran into embedding
chip in a metal case that would create electrical discharge frying the
I think dongles (and non-copyable floppies) have been around since the early
80s at least...maybe the 70s. Tamper-resistant CPU modules have been around
since the ATM network, I believe, in the form of PIN processors stored
inside safes)
The fundamental difference between a dongle and a full
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security modules are also inside the swipe pin-entry boxes that you see
at check-out counters.
Yep -- anything which handles PINs, specifically, and some non-ATM smartcard
payment systems.
effectively both smartcards and dongles are forms of
