[News] Pegasos to target different markets | ANN.lu |
Posted on 15-Aug-2002 13:03 GMT by Christophe Decanini | 51 comments View flat View list |
Here is a message from Bill Buck and Raquel Velasco on MorphOS-news.de explaining how Thendic will use the Pegasos and MorphOS with smart card readers to provide secure money transactions and other applications.
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Posted by cOrpse on 15-Aug-2002 19:07 GMT | In reply to Comment 24 (Sharwin & Rakesh Raghoebardayal): problem being when someone gets your card with all you tasty bank details and a flaw has just been exposed in its access routines the allow anybody to copy the data from the card.
A better idea is a secure server ( Running OpenBSD of course ) , a honey pot should distract kiddies .. Then run a system similar to the .net passports on it and use the passports to validate requests for sensitive information , charging bank accounts etc .. The card should only ever contain non sensitive information like save games and maybe the username and password for the secure server ( not very secure , but if the cards lost the server can be told to reject it ) .
Number one reason smartcards are insecure is : they're Physical objects and can be lost , stolen and misused like for example a set of keys. They also give someone that wishes to abuse the card something in their hands to work on.
And as for a key to access my computer ... Well i'd rather have shadowed , MD5 passwords. |
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