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Re: a smartcard of a different color
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ben Laurie)
Wed Nov 17 10:02:24 1999
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Date: Wed, 17 Nov 1999 13:35:01 +0000
From: Ben Laurie <ben@algroup.co.uk>
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To: Robert Hettinga <rah@shipwright.com>
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Robert Hettinga wrote:
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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>
> Sender: <mac-crypto@vmeng.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.
I thought these were IDs and not dumbcards?
Cheers,
Ben.
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