From: Steve Schear <azur@netcom.com>
Date: Mon, 17 Feb 1997 17:41:49 -0800 (PST)
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: PDAs as alternatives to smart cards?
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With the widespread adoption of an industry standard IR link between PDA
type devices, networks and PCs might this not present an opportunity for
their use as more user-configurable and application agile financial and
communiation privacy instruments?  I'm especially thinking along the lines
of their use for ecash transactions in conjunction with smart card-type
merchant terminals sporting an inexpensive IR link to the customer's PDA.

If disk protection programs (e.g., DiskCrypt/PGPDisk) were extended to PDAs
ight that not enable them for a whole host of personal applications?

--Steve