[geeks] Interesting: hardware security token for PayPal

Dan Duncan danduncan at gmail.com
Sun Apr 1 01:21:08 CDT 2007


On 3/31/07, Charles Shannon Hendrix <shannon at widomaker.com> wrote:
> It seems to me like it would be fairly cheap to build a device like that
> which gathered entropy from its environment.
>
> No two units are likely to have the same hash of temperature, vibration,
> drops, torque (human holding it), etc.

How would you then use it to log in if the other end didn't know what
number you'd be presenting?




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Dan Duncan



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