On 03/12/2015 04:51 PM, Robert J. Hansen wrote: > For many users, smart cards are a good idea. (I've got one myself.) > But for just as many users, smart cards are inconvenient and overkill. > Frankly, they have awful usability, just terrible. When I receive an > email message encrypted to my smart card key, finding the smart card is > easy -- it's in my wallet -- but finding the smart card *reader* is the > sort of thing that leads me to crazed conspiracy theories. Is the > reader attached to my laptop? Did I leave it at the office? Did I kick > it under the sofa? Did the space aliens from Zarbnulax take it? There are USB-Sticks with an embedded smart card controller that take away the burden to find a working card reader (which _is_ a real pain). The one we use has a standard CCID interface that works without driver installation on the majority of operating systems.
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