[66586] in Cypherpunks
Re: Weaknesses in Smart Cards? (Re: FLA_wed)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Phil Fraering)
Thu Sep 26 19:36:05 1996
Date: Thu, 26 Sep 1996 18:21:16 -0500 (CDT)
From: Phil Fraering <pgf@acadian.net>
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
In-Reply-To: <ae6ffc4f0b02100486bd@[207.167.93.63]>
On Thu, 26 Sep 1996, Timothy C. May wrote:
[... much deleted but boiling down to: ]
> Not a good journalistic trend, in my opinion.
Yah, but since 40-bit cyphers is seen by the "media" as something most
people don't use, but "smart cards" are just another type of
fraud-resistant credit card being used by Everyone Already, of course,
they have to start a stampede now.
I wonder if this isn't just plain Fear, Uncertainty, and Doubt rearing
its ugly head... does Lucent (they were the ones, right?) have a competing
product?
Phil Fraering The above is the opinion of neither my internet
pgf@acadian.net service provider nor my employer.
318/261-9649
