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Re: the limits of crypto and authentication
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Perry E. Metzger)
Mon Jul 11 13:44:42 2005
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From: "Perry E. Metzger" <perry@piermont.com>
Date: Sun, 10 Jul 2005 00:29:55 -0400
In-Reply-To: <20050709223142.69EF21BF96C@absinthe.tinho.net> (dan@geer.org's
message of "Sat, 09 Jul 2005 18:31:42 -0400")
dan@geer.org writes:
> Nick Owen writes:
> | I think that the cost of two-factor authentication will plummet in the
> | face of the volumes offered by e-banking.
>
> Would you or anyone here care to analyze
> what I am presuming is the market failure
> of Amex Blue in the sense of its chipcard
> and reader combo?
The Blue Card, so far as I can tell, was poorly thought out beyond its
marketing potential. I knew some folks at Amex involved in the
development of the system, and I did not get the impression they had
much of a coherent idea of what the technologies would be used for
other than creating marketing buzz.
Perry
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