From ukirwat@nlevdpsb.snads.philips.nl Wed Aug 14 00:11:27 1996 Received: from relay.philips.nl (ns.philips.nl [130.144.65.1]) by suburbia.net (8.7.4/Proff-950810) with ESMTP id AAA19480 for ; Wed, 14 Aug 1996 00:10:02 +1000 Received: (from smap@localhost) by relay.philips.nl (8.6.9/8.6.9-950414) id QAA06985 for ; Tue, 13 Aug 1996 16:07:27 +0200 Received: from unknown(130.144.198.100) by ns.philips.nl via smap (V1.3+ESMTP) with SMTP id sma006741; Tue Aug 13 16:06:02 1996 Received: by philips.nl; id AA21577; Tue, 13 Aug 1996 16:00:22 GMT Date: Tue, 13 Aug 1996 16:00:22 GMT Message-Id: Subject: BoS: Ease of use of harware tokens (was Re: SecurID) From: ukirwat@nlevdpsb.snads.philips.nl (Rob Waters.) To: best-of-security@suburbia.net > > SDTI's success is really built on the fact that users -- the > > people who actually carry the tokens -- usually say they like the SecurID > > better than the alternatives. > Here I have to concede the point. Our Consultants also believe that > the SecurID token will be easier to support in the hands of the users. Wouldn't the easiest solution be to design the token so that the number could be read from the LCD, but that the token could also be inserted into a floppy drive and read automatically by applications that could talk to a PC? Yes I know people could walk away and leave the token in the drive, but at the moment they can leave the token on an unoccupied desk. -- | Regards, Rob Waters. | Multiplatform Security Consultant, | Technical Services Europe, | Origin IT Systems Management Ltd. | 44-181-781-8484 or 31-40-2784008 -- | There are two major products to come out of Berkeley: LSD and BSD. | We don't believe this to be a coincidence. - anon. --