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Re: [Full-Disclosure] Clear text password exposure in Datakey's tokens and smartcards
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- Subject: Re: [Full-Disclosure] Clear text password exposure in Datakey's tokens and smartcards
- From: Seth Breidbart <sethb@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 5 Aug 2004 23:51:07 -0400 (EDT)
"Kevin Sheldrake" <kev@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Ignoring the initial expense for a moment, wouldn't it have made a
> lot of sense to include the keypad actually on the cards?
> Obviously, card readers would need to be contructed such that the
> keypad part of the card would be exposed during use.
No, they wouldn't. The card could remember the key typed on it for,
say, 60 seconds.
Seth