Re: What good are smartcard readers for PCs

2002-09-27 Thread Peter Gutmann
At most, it'll contain a name+password for HTTP basic-auth (and to identify users to the site so they can be connected with the info they supplied at purchase time). You've spent too long in the crypto world. Having poked around in the FAQ (I can't believe I'm wasting my time on this), it could

Re: What good are smartcard readers for PCs

2002-09-27 Thread James A. Donald
-- Neil Johnson wrote: Hey don't forget you can still buy a smart card reader from that most cypherpunkish of babes BRITNEY SPEARS ! Only $30 ! https://www.visiblevisitors.com/mltest/order_form.asp James A. Donald: A previous poster suggested that the smart card industry

Re: What good are smartcard readers for PCs

2002-09-27 Thread Peter Gutmann
James A. Donald [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Peter Gutmann wrote: All they're doing is reading a URL off a USB dongle (technically a 256-byte I2C memory card plugged into a reader, but in effect the combination is a USB dongle). That's a no-brainer, I can do that with two wires taped to the card

Re: What good are smartcard readers for PCs

2002-09-27 Thread Peter Gutmann
James A. Donald [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On 25 Sep 2002 at 18:36, Neil Johnson wrote: Hey don't forget you can still buy a smart card reader from that most cypherpunkish of babes BRITNEY SPEARS ! Only $30 ! https://www.visiblevisitors.com/mltest/order_form.asp A previous poster suggested

Re: What good are smartcard readers for PCs

2002-09-27 Thread Peter Gutmann
I wrote: The FAQ handwaves the details, so it could be either 1 or 3. Can someone who has one of these things try reading the ATR off it? He Who has No Shame [0] reports that it's a GemClub memory card, which is reasonably similar to the old SLE4428-style cards: 256 bytes of memory, some of it

House will be busy next week fighting terrorism

2002-09-27 Thread Declan McCullagh
-- S. 2690, the Pledge of Allegiance Reaffirmation Act. Sponsored by Senator Tim Hutchinson, this bill reaffirms the motto In God we trust and the language of the Pledge of Allegiance in its entirety, including the phrase one Nation under God. The Senate passed this bill on June 27, 2002 by a

Re: What good are smartcard readers for PCs

2002-09-27 Thread Lisa
I didn't suggest that they should be banned. I simply stated that this was one consumer usage of the smart card reader. On Thu, 26 Sep 2002, Ben Laurie wrote: Lisa wrote: They are also actively used to modify DirecTV Dish Network access cards to steal service. Damn. We'd better ban