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Neil Johnson wrote:
> > > Hey don't forget you can still buy a smart card reader
> > > from that most cypherpunkish of babes BRITNEY SPEARS !
> > > Only $30 !
> > >
> > > https://www.visiblevisitors.com/mltest/order_form.asp
James A. Donald:
> > A previous poster suggested that the smart card industry
> > had usuability problems. If these guys are selling to that
> > market, they must have solved those problems -- or believe
> > that they have.
Peter Gutmann wrote:
> All they're doing is reading a URL off a USB dongle
> (technically a 256-byte I2C memory card plugged into a
> reader, but in effect the combination is a USB dongle).
> That's a no-brainer, I can do that with two wires taped to
> the card contacts and poked into the PC's parallel port, and
> around 50 bytes of code on the PC.
If all they were doing is reading the URL, presumably you can
already get to the site without owning the smartcard.
I believe the card cryptographically proves its presence to the
site to show that the user is authorized to hit the site.
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James A. Donald
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