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Re: how to read information from RFID equipped credit cards

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Allen)
Thu Mar 27 14:49:02 2008

Date: Thu, 27 Mar 2008 11:35:58 -0700
From: Allen <netsecurity@sound-by-design.com>
To:  cryptography@metzdowd.com
CC: Arnnei Speiser <Arnon@Mycell.Org>
In-Reply-To: <47E565AB.4090708@links.org>



Ben Laurie wrote:

[snip]

> And so we end up at the position that we have ended up at so many times 
> before: the GTCYM has to have a decent processor, a keyboard and a 
> screen, and must be portable and secure.
> 
> One day we'll stop concluding this and actually do something about it.

And it can almost certainly be done with the current technology. 
Arnnei Speiser at http://www.megaas.co.nz/ has a two factor one 
time password application that runs on a java enabled cellphone. 
If he can do this I suspect it is but short hop to what you suggest.

He has a bank demo that is worth looking at as a potential model.

Best,

Allen

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