At 05:44 AM 1/25/97 -0800, Lucky Green wrote:

At 06:29 PM 1/24/97 -0800, Hugh Daniel wrote:

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From: jsp@betz.biostr.washington.edu [...] However, some hardware is required. Because the key is on a smartcard, users must have smartcard readers installed on their computers, which aren't yet widely available. But Pdr Andler of Finnish Hewlett Packard says that later this year, smartcard readers will become standard on computers in Scandinavia. [...]

Interesting piece of trivia: I recently talked with a fellow from Intel. They are looking to purchase keyboards with smartcard readers built in. They hope to get them at $30/piece from suppliers in Asia. The lot size? 10 million.

I suppose this is good news. I just hope they implement a system, like Chaum's low-knowledge/zero-knowledge systems, which make it difficult or impossible for snoops or tampered hardware to leak useful information. Jim Bell jimbell@pacifier.com