We have been using CAC's (Common Access Cards) for years. They work as a photo ID as well as for network authentication. Ours contain a mag a strip as well as a smart chip. BTW, we still have a regular password that changes every 120 (?) days for the website through which all our CAC's and the associated accounts are maintained. We sign onto the LAN using a PIN.
YMMV > Subject: Re: Are Passwords Obsolete? > > A CAC card (Computer Authorization Card???) is a ROM that plugs into a USB > port and is the authentication for Windows/system logon, and everything else. > It's been used for a few years now on military networks. No reason it > couldn't be extended to civilian uses. "CAC" may not be entirely correct, > but I believe it is. I don't have one. The user carries it around on his > person like an ID card. > -- My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind. - Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955) ************************************************************************ * ==> QUICK LIST-COMMAND REFERENCE - Put the following commands in <== * ==> the body of an email & send 'em to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <== * Join the list: SUBSCRIBE COMPUTERGUYS-L Your Name * Too much mail? Try Daily Digests command: SET COMPUTERGUYS-L DIGEST * Tired of the List? Unsubscribe command: SIGNOFF COMPUTERGUYS-L * New address? From OLD address send: CHANGE COMPUTERGUYS-L YourNewAddress * Need more help? Send mail to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ************************************************************************ * List archive from 1/1/2000 is on the MARC http://marc.info/?l=computerguys-l * List archive at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/ * RSS at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/maillist.xml * Messages bearing the header "X-No-Archive: yes" will not be archived ************************************************************************
