17 Dec
2003
17 Dec
'03
11:17 p.m.
(see Miburi-san«s posting for a good summary of Bruno Struif«s talk) <wex@media.mit.edu> asked:
What kind(s) of encryption are being used to protect/sign this information?
well, DES and RSA, of course. The smartcard's operating system provides this, plus encrypted communication to the smartcardreader and a filesystem, for keys and payload data.