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Re: Scandinavian Goverments provide PGP to postal customers...
At 06:29 PM 1/24/97 -0800, Hugh Daniel wrote:
> FYI:
>>From: [email protected]
[...]
>> 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.
-- Lucky Green <mailto:[email protected]> PGP encrypted mail preferred
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