full-disclosure - Clear text password exposure in Datakey's tokens and smartcards

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Message-ID: <200408060351.i763p7G04132@panix5.panix.com>
From: sethb at panix.com (Seth Breidbart)
Subject: Clear text password exposure in Datakey's tokens and smartcards

"Kevin Sheldrake" <kev@...ctriccat.co.uk> 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