At 5:25 AM -0500 on 12/6/00, Andrew Drapp wrote:
We have it now. Smartcards.
Smartcards may be more portable, but *don't* have their own I/O, and David Chaum was *not* talking about smartcards when he mad the point I was making. See the proceedings of the 1998 International Conference on Financial Cryptography for details. They're published by Springer-Verlag. Any large library should have them, if you don't want to actually buy them. Cheers, RAH -- ----------------- R. A. Hettinga <mailto: rah@ibuc.com> The Internet Bearer Underwriting Corporation <http://www.ibuc.com/> 44 Farquhar Street, Boston, MA 02131 USA "... however it may deserve respect for its usefulness and antiquity, [predicting the end of the world] has not been found agreeable to experience." -- Edward Gibbon, 'Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire'