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Re: Latest smartcard software
guy wrote:
> > From [email protected] Wed Jan 21 03:38:35 1998
> >
> > The Independent Smartcard Developer Association, the only non-vendor
> > controlled smartcard related industry organization, announces their
>latest
> > release of SIO/STEST.
> >
> > SIO/STEST is a developer toolkit that provides drivers for most popular
> > smartcard readers as well as card support for a wide range of crypto
> > capable smartcards. SIO/STEST provides the tools required by the
> > application programmer to integrate smartcards with their application.
> >
> > As always, your feedback is appreciated.
>
>Is this for a "cypherpunks" smartcard, or for hacking them?
>
>Smartcards tend to be transponders, and to want to gobble up
>all other cards...bad card, bad card.
>
[ Excerpt from the Cryptography Manifesto snipped ]
>
>They'll say hey, you've already surrendered your biometric number
>during fingerprinting for driver's licenses.
>
>It will be too late.
>
>The high-tech American Leviathan will be in place.
>
>
All the more reason to distribute information on how
to read from and write to the cards.
-- Marshall
Marshall Clow Adobe Systems <mailto:[email protected]>
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