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Re: Feds Web Crypto
I'm suprised no one has pointed out that this could mean all
confidential communication with the government, such as paying your
taxes, will require a $95 Fortezza card.
Of course, you could then use that card to encrypt your credit card
numbers and email, as well.
Label this Clipper IV.
Adam
[email protected] wrote:
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| Washington Post, May 20, 1996
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| Feds on the Web
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| Federal agencies' efforts to link up with the citizenry over
| the World Wide Web take a step forward today. Officials plan
| to announce a pilot program in which 1,000 to 2,000 people
| will try their hands at secure Web transactions with federal
| agencies. It's set to start later this month.
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| The vision for the "Paperless Transactions for the Public
| Project": a taxpayer files a return to the Internal Revenue
| Service over Web links that use advanced cryptography to
| confirm to the agency that the return's really coming from the
| right party. Or, a retiree goes into a Social Security
| Administration computer to check benefit information.
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| VIPs, civil servants and ordinary folks are to be issued
| special "key cards" to take part in the test, which will use
| cryptography from Frontier Technologies Corp., a Wisconsin
| networking company. Officials promise the vision is not that
| far away.
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