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In article <1992Sep8.164652.1780@osf.org> karger@osf.org (Paul A. Karger) writes:

! This points up the need for one of the B2 and up security measures from
! the orange book - namely trusted path.  There must be a way for the user
! to authenticate to the system, but there must also be a way for the system
! to authenticate itself to the user, so that user knows that this is the
! real bank ATM or terminal or workstation or whatever...

It just shows that the current idea of an 'ATM card' is no good. We need
intelligent tokens and pretty damn fast. By 'intelligent token' I mean
a card that can be challenged by the computer of the bank. I've seen this
talked about in many books, so it's nothing new. What I would like to know
is that how soon such devices will be available? Will the patents on
public encryption prevent such devices for another 10 years?
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