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a smartcard of a different color
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Robert Hettinga)
Wed Nov 17 10:02:21 1999
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Date: Tue, 16 Nov 1999 23:44:17 -0500
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From: Robert Hettinga <rah@shipwright.com>
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To: mac-crypto@vmeng.com
Subject: a smartcard of a different color
Date: Tue, 16 Nov 1999 22:15:07 -0500
From: Dan Geer <geer@world.std.com>
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Yesterday I saw a smartcard of a different color. In particular,
it is the smartcard chip but in a key-ring thing that is more or
less identical to the Mobil SpeedPass except that it has a USB
connector on one end and a keyring hole on the other. Total length
circa 1.25"; color purple; maker Rainbow Technologies. As my pal
Peter Honeyman said in showing it to me, "There are already all
the USB ports we'll ever need." I'd point out that without the
7816 requirement for flex a whole lot more memory is a trivial
add-on and that USB is not a bandwidth bottleneck.
--dan
ref: http://www.rainbow.com/ikey/graphics/iKey_DS.pdf
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Robert A. Hettinga <mailto: rah@ibuc.com>
The Internet Bearer Underwriting Corporation <http://www.ibuc.com/>
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