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Mondex is back ... (fwd)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (M Taylor)
Tue Apr 13 13:01:05 1999
Date: Tue, 13 Apr 1999 13:41:19 -0300 (ADT)
From: M Taylor <mctaylor@privacy.nb.ca>
To: cryptography@c2.net
Mondex has made a reappearance, this time to a extremely small market
share in New Brunswick, Canada. I would expect less than 5,000 households
to have Vibe in New Brunswick, which is a largely rural area (think:
Maine). I wonder if they thought it best to test Mondex on a bunch of
backwater folk who weren't likely to try and hack the smart cards.
The US and previous Canadian deployments closed up suddenly last if I
remember correctly. I do not recall if Differential Power Analysis was
rumoured to influence this or not.
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M Taylor mctaylor@ / privacy.nb.ca
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Subject: Mondex is back ...
Date: Mon, 12 Apr 1999 12:59:23 -0400 (EDT)
From: David Jones <djones@insight.cas.mcmaster.ca>
>From Telemanagement:
NBTEL AND ROYAL BANK TEST MONDEX:
NBTel is partnering with Royal Bank in a smart card pilot project
which uses Mondex e-cash for online purchases. Royal Bank customers
who are users of NBTel's Vibe service will receive a Mondex card
and a smart card reader which attaches to a PC.
