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Re: DOD goes to Smart Card ID's
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (jenkins@fox.nstn.ca)
Sun Oct 28 16:13:15 2001
To: "Arnold G. Reinhold" <reinhold@world.std.com>, dcsb@ai.mit.edu,
cryptography@wasabisystems.com
From: jenkins@fox.nstn.ca
Date: Sun, 28 Oct 2001 15:21:40 Canada/Eastern
Message-Id: <E15xwRU-0005KW-00@smtp.ca.inter.net>
The Marine Corps tried this a couple of years ago -
cards did not work under "field conditions" worth a darn
- found they were , shall we say "sensitive to heat"-
now if asbestos wasnt so "difficult" to wotk with -
we might have a solution here.
Gord Jenkins
jenkins@fox.nstn.ca
> http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/20011026/pl/tech_smartcards_military_dc_1.html
>
> ....
>
> "The U.S. defense department has ordered chip-based ID cards for 4.3
> million military
> personnel over the next 18 months to tighten security on access to
> buildings, including the
> Pentagon (news - web sites), and to computer networks, including
> access to encrypted
> e-mail and online transactions."
>
> ....
>
> ``This is extremely important, not only to us, but to the whole smart
> card industry. It's the
> biggest Java-based smart card order yet,'' ActivCard Senior Vice
> President Tom Arthur told
> Reuters at annual chip card congress Cartes 2001.'
>
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