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Re: Scandinavian Goverments provide PGP to postal customers...

At 09:50 PM 1/25/97 -0800, jim bell wrote:
>>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.
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>I suppose this is good news.  I just hope they implement a system, like 
>Chaum's low-knowledge/zero-knowledge systems, which make it difficult or 
>impossible for snoops or tampered hardware to leak useful information.

I understand that Intel's main problem at this time seem to be to find a keyboard manufacturer that understands that for the device to be effective, the CPU should not be involved in its operation.



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