On Sat, Oct 23, 2004 at 06:58:26PM +1300, Aaron Whitehouse wrote: > That would seem to me a more realistic expectation on consumers who are > going to have, before too long, credit cards that fit that description > and quite possibly the readers to go with them.
No, that's going to be the mobile phone. These already come with smartcards; unfortunately their security is really lousy, so a secure pathway into the secure crypto compartment for PIN entry is required. In practice, no one is going to give a damn, until PIN-harvesting Bluetooth & Co worms will result in palpable loss for the institutions. -- Eugen* Leitl <a href="http://leitl.org";>leitl</a> ______________________________________________________________ ICBM: 48.07078, 11.61144 http://www.leitl.org 8B29F6BE: 099D 78BA 2FD3 B014 B08A 7779 75B0 2443 8B29 F6BE http://moleculardevices.org http://nanomachines.net
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