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Re: Difference between TCPA-Hardware and a smart card (was:
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Pat Farrell)
Thu Dec 18 11:51:34 2003
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Date: Tue, 16 Dec 2003 00:19:55 -0500
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From: Pat Farrell <pfarrell@pfarrell.com>
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At 07:02 PM 12/15/2003 -0500, Jerrold Leichter wrote:
>However, this advantage is there only because there are so few smart cards,
>and so few smart card enabled applications, around.
A software only, networked smart card would solve the
chicken and egg problem. One such solution is
Tamper resistant method and apparatus, [Ellison], USPTO 6,073,237
(Do a patent number search at http://www.uspto.gov/patft/index.html)
Carl invented this as an alternative to Smartcards back in the SET
development days.
Pat
Pat Farrell pfarrell@pfarrell.com
http://www.pfarrell.com
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