Re: a smartcard of a different color

Robert Hettinga (rahshipwright.com)
Wed, 17 Nov 1999 14:01:29 -0500

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Date: Tue, 16 Nov 1999 22:57:46 -0800
From: Will Price <wpricecyphers.net>
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To: mac-cryptovmeng.com
Subject: Re: a smartcard of a different color
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Funny that they have a picture of an iKey plugging into an Apple USB
Keyboard in their data sheet, but not a single one of their features
actually works on a Mac because there aren't any drivers for this.

We're planning smartcard support in PGP soon. It's rapidly looking
like the Mac side may get left behind because of the lack of any OS
level support for this. If anyone is working on drivers for this or
other smartcard related devices for the Mac, please contact me.
We're interested in PKCS#11 APIs to these devices.

This would look so great with my new grape iMac DV. :-)

Dan Geer wrote:
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>
> Yesterday I saw a smartcard of a different color. In particular,
> it is the smartcard chip but in a key-ring thing that is more or
> less identical to the Mobil SpeedPass except that it has a USB
> connector on one end and a keyring hole on the other. Total length
> circa 1.25"; color purple; maker Rainbow Technologies. As my pal
> Peter Honeyman said in showing it to me, "There are already all
> the USB ports we'll ever need." I'd point out that without the
> 7816 requirement for flex a whole lot more memory is a trivial
> add-on and that USB is not a bandwidth bottleneck.
>
> --dan
>
> ref: http://www.rainbow.com/ikey/graphics/iKey_DS.pdf

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Will Price, Architect/Sr. Mgr., PGP Client Products
Total Network Security Division
Network Associates, Inc.

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