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- From: Ari.Huttunen@hut.fi (Ari Juhani Huttunen)
- Subject: Re: ATM fraud
- In-Reply-To: karger@osf.org's message of Tue, 8 Sep 1992 16:46:52 GMT
- Message-ID: <ARI.HUTTUNEN.92Sep9013737@supergirl.hut.fi>
- Sender: usenet@cs.hut.fi (Uutis Ankka)
- Organization: Helsinki University of Technology, Finland
- References: <1992Sep8.115050.8694@cl.cam.ac.uk> <1992Sep8.164652.1780@osf.org>
- Date: Tue, 8 Sep 1992 23:37:37 GMT
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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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- Ari Huttunen Any similarity to other alien life forms
- is purely coincidental.
- <Alien 3 misquote>
-