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Re: Crypto dongles to secure online transactions
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Darren J Moffat)
Wed Nov 25 09:02:27 2009
Date: Mon, 23 Nov 2009 12:40:34 +0000
From: Darren J Moffat <Darren.Moffat@Sun.COM>
In-reply-to: <20091120201352.dkm2x8vzwcw0g8c8@webmail.cs.auckland.ac.nz>
To: Peter Gutmann <pgut001@cs.auckland.ac.nz>
Cc: cryptography@metzdowd.com, johnl@iecc.com
Peter Gutmann wrote:
> external data from finding its way onto their corporate networks (they are
> really, *really* concerned about this). If you wanted this to work, you'd
> need to build a device with a small CMOS video sensor to read data from the
> browser via QR codes and return little more than a 4-6 digit code that the
> user can type in (a MAC of the transaction details or something). It's
> feasible, but not quite what you were thinking of.
That reminds me of the Lenslok copy protection device on the Elite (and
others) game from the '80s[1]
[1] http://www.birdsanctuary.co.uk/sanct/s_lenslok.php
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Darren J Moffat
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