From: jim bell <jimbell@pacifier.com>
Date: Sat, 25 Jan 1997 22:55:58 -0800 (PST)
To: Lucky Green <cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: Re: Scandinavian Goverments provide PGP to postal customers...
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At 05:44 AM 1/25/97 -0800, Lucky Green wrote:
>At 06:29 PM 1/24/97 -0800, Hugh Daniel wrote:
>>  FYI:
>>>From: jsp@betz.biostr.washington.edu
>[...]
>>>    However, some hardware is required. Because the key is on a
>>>    smartcard, users must have smartcard readers installed on their
>>>    computers, which aren't yet widely available. But Pdr Andler of
>>>    Finnish Hewlett Packard says that later this year, smartcard readers
>>>    will become standard on computers in Scandinavia.
>[...]
>
>Interesting piece of trivia: I recently talked with a fellow from Intel. They are looking to purchase keyboards with smartcard readers built in. They hope to get them at $30/piece from suppliers in Asia. The lot size? 10 million.


I suppose this is good news.  I just hope they implement a system, like 
Chaum's low-knowledge/zero-knowledge systems, which make it difficult or 
impossible for snoops or tampered hardware to leak useful information.

Jim Bell
jimbell@pacifier.com