Anonymous wrote:
On Mon, 7 Oct 1996, Robert Hettinga wrote:
iButton users will have universal access to their World Wide Web
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
e-mail at public Internet connections (hotels, airports, kiosks) and ^^^^^^
I think that says it all.
Someone's not paying attention ... When WWW browsers are available at hotels and airports, as they surely will be, then accessing ones email via www will be commonplace. This can be called "world wide web e-mail". And of course you wouldn't want to carry around a list of s/keys, would you?, so what better way to authorise the connection than with an iButton? (Answer: An iButton with a user interface, perhaps a watch?) Gary -- "Of course the US Constitution isn't perfect; but it's a lot better than what we have now." -- Unknown. pub 1024/C001D00D 1996/01/22 Gary Howland <gary@systemics.com> Key fingerprint = 0C FB 60 61 4D 3B 24 7D 1C 89 1D BE 1F EE 09 06