On Sat, 23 Oct 2004, Aaron Whitehouse wrote: > >Oh, and make it small enough to fit in the pocket, > >put a display *and* a keypad on it, and tell the > >user not to lose it. > > How much difference is there, practically, between this and using a > smartcard credit card in an external reader with a keypad? Aside from > the weight of the 'computer' in your pocket...
The risks of using *somebody else's keypad* to type passwords or instructions to your smartcard, or using *somebody else's display* to view output that is intended to be private, should be obvious. --apb (Alan Barrett) --------------------------------------------------------------------- The Cryptography Mailing List Unsubscribe by sending "unsubscribe cryptography" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]