Re: What good are smartcard readers for PCs

-- On 25 Sep 2002 at 18:36, 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 A previous poster suggested that the smart card industry had

RC5-64 solved

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Just noticed on /. that distributed.net wound up 4 years of intense CPU cycles, by getting the key to RSA's RC5-64 challenge. Distributed.net release: http://www.distributed.net/pressroom/news-20020926.html On 14-Jul-2002, a relatively

Re: What good are smartcard readers for PCs

Lisa wrote: They are also actively used to modify DirecTV Dish Network access cards to steal service. Damn. We'd better ban them then. I've heard this Interweb thingy is used to steal content - should we ban that, too? -- http://www.apache-ssl.org/ben.html http://www.thebunker.net/