From: Lucky Green <shamrock@netcom.com>
Date: Sat, 25 Jan 1997 05:42:38 -0800 (PST)
To: Hugh Daniel <cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: Re: Scandinavian Goverments provide PGP to postal customers...
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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.

That's a lot of smartcard readers. Even for Intel.



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