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

FYI:

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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. That's a lot of smartcard readers. Even for Intel. -- Lucky Green <mailto:shamrock@netcom.com> PGP encrypted mail preferred Make your mark in the history of mathematics. Use the spare cycles of your PC/PPC/UNIX box to help find a new prime. http://www.mersenne.org/prime.htm