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Re: Is there any future for smartcards?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Eugen Leitl)
Sat Sep 10 17:03:08 2005
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Date: Sat, 10 Sep 2005 22:55:30 +0200
From: Eugen Leitl <eugen@leitl.org>
To: Pat Farrell <pfarrell@pfarrell.com>, cryptography@metzdowd.com
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On Wed, Sep 07, 2005 at 06:08:25PM -0400, Pat Farrell wrote:
> Something tells me that soon is not gonna happen in what I would
> call soon. Smartcards (the smart part) were moderately interesting
> when there was no networking. We've been at ubiquitous networking
> for many years.
We also have ubiquitous networking of systems which are vulnerable=20
and frequently compromised. Smartcard + reader is a hardened cryptographic
compartment where you can still trust what you see on the reader display,=
=20
and that nobody can sniff what is entered on the keypad.
Such a system can be safely connected to an insecure, networked machine.
=20
> Is there a real problem that they uniquely solve, sufficient
> to drive the building of the needed infrastructure?
> I don't see it, and I'd love to be made smarter.
--=20
Eugen* Leitl <a href=3D"http://leitl.org">leitl</a>
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