[16347] in cryptography@c2.net mail archive
Re: Financial identity is *dangerous*? (was re: Fake companies, real money)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Alan Barrett)
Mon Oct 25 16:26:30 2004
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Date: Sat, 23 Oct 2004 22:21:23 +0200
From: Alan Barrett <apb@cequrux.com>
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In-Reply-To: <4179F302.6020006@whitehouse.org.nz>
On Sat, 23 Oct 2004, Aaron Whitehouse wrote:
> >Oh, and make it small enough to fit in the pocket,
> >put a display *and* a keypad on it, and tell the
> >user not to lose it.
>
> How much difference is there, practically, between this and using a
> smartcard credit card in an external reader with a keypad? Aside from
> the weight of the 'computer' in your pocket...
The risks of using *somebody else's keypad* to type passwords or
instructions to your smartcard, or using *somebody else's display* to
view output that is intended to be private, should be obvious.
--apb (Alan Barrett)
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