Difference between TCPA-Hardware and a smart card (was: example: secure computing kernel needed)

Pat Farrell pfarrell at pfarrell.com
Tue Dec 16 00:19:55 EST 2003


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 at pfarrell.com
http://www.pfarrell.com

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