Schneier on Smartcards and Holding Secrets

[Lucky Green]

On Mon, 27 Apr 1998, David Honig wrote:

> 	
> Bruce wrote a short letter to a trade mag (Internet world? I've
> lost it since) worth reporting.  The jist was, if a smartcard
> contains Bank Secrets but is held by customers which do not
> share the same goals/responsibility as the owner of the secrets, this is 
> *poor security design*.

No kidding. Duh.

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