[79375] in Cypherpunks
ECR_ypt
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John Young)
Thu May 1 18:02:43 1997
Date: Thu, 01 May 1997 16:06:16 -0400
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
From: John Young <jya@pipeline.com>
Reply-To: John Young <jya@pipeline.com>
Two news reports on Big Bro e-cards:
1. E-Pass -- a UK product that is both smart card and PC,
will have one or more screens, and hopes to dominate
the global government and business market for
all-CU-data-in-one-easily-tracked-device.
2. Proton -- Belgium's cartel card, the mostly widely
used device to en-SAFE Belgians, and a candidate
to be recruited by Visa or MasterCard or Mondex or
Halliburton or Armadillo US/UK/AUS.
And a report on a speed demon crypto card from Eracom
in AU, which claims to be "the world's first PC-based
PCI bus cryptographic processor which can punch through
cryptographic traffic at up to 30 times the speed of ISA bus
products."
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