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Re: going around the crypto
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Enzo Michelangeli)
Tue Aug 17 18:12:30 1999
From: "Enzo Michelangeli" <em@who.net>
To: <pgut001@cs.auckland.ac.nz>, <cryptography@c2.net>
Date: Sun, 15 Aug 1999 22:45:34 +0800
----- Original Message -----
From: Peter Gutmann <pgut001@cs.auckland.ac.nz>
To: <cryptography@c2.net>
Sent: Saturday, August 14, 1999 6:03 AM
Subject: Re: going around the crypto
[...]
> Smart cards with thumbprint readers are one step in this
> direction, although they're currently prohibitively expensive.
Siemens is experimenting with such a device in mobile phones, so it can't
cost that much:
http://www.siemens.com.hk/press/icp01.htm
Enzo
