From nerudas@nationwide.com Wed Aug 14 01:09:12 1996 Received: from pdx1.world.net (pdx1.world.net [192.243.32.18]) by suburbia.net (8.7.4/Proff-950810) with ESMTP id BAA24534 for ; Wed, 14 Aug 1996 01:09:04 +1000 Received: from metis.nationwide.com (metis.nationwide.com [199.18.214.50]) by pdx1.world.net (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id IAA12397 for ; Tue, 13 Aug 1996 08:11:02 -0700 (PDT) Sender: neruda@nationwide.com Message-ID: <321098FF.4D02@nationwide.com> Date: Tue, 13 Aug 1996 11:02:23 -0400 From: Steve Neruda Organization: The Nationwide Insurance Enterprise X-Mailer: Mozilla 2.01 (X11; U; SunOS 5.4 sun4m) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Rob Waters." CC: best-of-security@suburbia.net Subject: Re: BoS: Ease of use of harware tokens (was Re: SecurID) References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Rob Waters. wrote: > > > > > 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. A french company makes a device called an Active Card. I've only played with it but it seems pretty nice. See http://www.activcard.com for details. It has an optical coupler and if I remember right can scan it's challenge off a screen and with the optical coupler can also send the response. Steve Neruda Steve_Neruda@Nationwide.Com Senior Internet Consultant The Internet Technologies Group "They gave me a book of checks. They didn't ask for any deposits." --Congressman Joe Early