On Fri, 11 Jan 2002, Tom wrote:
> more specifically, I'm currently evaluating whether an ipaq can be a
> mobile authentication device. smartcards are great for "electronic
> keys", but they require that every machine has a smartcard reader
> installed or you carry that around, and in both cases you need software
> support. pretty much every device has a serial port.
Not to mention it has potential for touch-screen keypad etc. support for
extra authenticiation information, without having to trust such codes (Let
alone the main key) to untrusted systems. Good to hear somebody is working
on this, I had the thought to pursue this idea earlier, but it isn't
really part of my job description. It seems like Linux has pretty much
everything that's needed, though, all that's required it to write little
glue-code.
-Jukka Santala
Received on Fri Jan 11 00:29:46 2002
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