At 3:55 PM 8/28/95, Mark wrote:

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Better would be to figure out the encoding scheme and post it here.

I like this, myself. It'd be nice to be able to have the picture of my choosing instead of a digitized thumbprint...

I think the officer arresting you would frown if your license dumped a nudie picture of Cindy Crawford instead of your identification details.

Sounds like a great way to smuggle nuclear secrets out of a country tho :)

What is the capacity of the mag strips. Do they carry much more than some ID code for computer reference? It seems unlikely that there is enough storage for a thumbprint. Some vitals perhaps, but again it would most likely simply be a speedier way of referencing the card holder's supposed True Name. (After all they'd have to be checking driving record information as well.) Still decrypting the cards would be amusing, just to aggravate those who become to used to the convienience. 'Oh.. sorry Governor Wilson... my but you look different up close'. Being in California, I've avoided getting a Cali license due in large part to the use of thumbprints. Perhaps I'm being silly, but I find it difficult to give up such vitals. Its the sheeplike way the majority of the population happily gives up its remnants and shreds of privacy which makes this such an important area. As for the Hello mentioned in the subject line... A few of you may know me already. I work for Consensus Development. We're going to be able to license out RSARef commercial use quite soon. Some of the people I've talked to have asked me to jump on Cypherpunks, so I've been going over the archives on the Cypherpunk list, and while rather large, I'm quite pleased to see the high content/noise ratio here. Anyway, my task is to get in gear as the Knowledge Officer for RSARef, and I am currently putting together the new RSARef discussion lists. Since I don't have the constitution (or obligation) to be a salesperson I'll leave the RSARef stuff at that. If you do have questions, or want to be put on the RSARef announcement list, drop me an email. Jonathan Zamick (Off to play with PGPFone.... how happy am I? :) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ..Jonathan Zamick Consensus Development Corporation.. ..<JonathanZ@consensus.com> 1563 Solano Ave, #355.. .. Berkeley, CA 94707-2116.. .. o510/559-1500 f510/559-1505.. ..Mosaic/WWW Home Page: .. .. Consensus Home Page ..