Bugtraq: Re: [Full-Disclosure] Clear text password exposure in Datakey's tokens and smartcards

[Seth Breidbart <sethb () panix com>]

"Kevin Sheldrake" <kev () electriccat 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