Re: pcmcia

[geeman@best.com]

At 10:58 AM 2/22/96 +0000, you wrote:
>I am just assuming that the Association (PCMCIA) has a way of distributing
>specs, etc. 

You can call them in San Jose, CA @ 408 433 2273  
$475.00 for non-members, paper only.  $715, paper/CD both.

>I also assume they have a web page and all that, maybe 
>even a citizen-unit subscribed to this mailing list who probably could
>point us in the right direction.  

www.pc-card.com, I believe

>I think PCMCIA cards offer a lot of
>potential as wallets and general purpose privacy prophylaxis engines.

Absolutely, and without doubt.  They are coming.

>I don't know anything about the technology, but the device drivers, et al,
>could be publicly reviewed and recompiled on trusted machines, presumably,
>and the device itself could be tested (I assume) with a publicly 
>available routine that once again one could install from source, etc. 

There are commercially available drivers, tested rigorously.  Fortezza cards
and s/w are very solid, as well as other cards derived from that type of
technology.  Fortezza cards are self-testing.

>
>how much do the slots cost to add on to pc's that don't already have them?
>Is there a parallel interface, for instance, that can plug into a 
>printer port?

SCM Microsystems, 408 370 4888 has a "Swap Box" product.  I don't know the cost.

>--
>PJ
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>On Thu, 22 Feb 1996, Adam Shostack wrote:
>
>> P.J. Ponder wrote:
>> 
>> | obligatory crypto comment: has anyone looked at the iPower card and 
>> | gotten one to play with? Where else could one get a PCMCIA card that was 
>> | programmable and had a little memory on it? How hard would it be to make 
>> | one - in other words, what could we get the cost down to for an 
>> | encrypting pcmcia card? there couldn't be much to it, really, could there?
>> 
>> 	I got one, its very badly documented; theres some source in
>> Visual basic for windoze.  I haven't had time to track down real docs
>> so I can do anything.  Anyone know who I can call to get real
>> documentation?
>> 
>> Adam
>> 
>> 
>> -- 
>> "It is seldom that liberty of any kind is lost all at once."
>> 					               -Hume
>> 
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