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List:       kde-core-devel
Subject:    Re: KDE and smartcard support
From:       Oswald Buddenhagen <ossi () kde ! org>
Date:       2007-05-23 15:39:46
Message-ID: 20070523153946.GB12631 () ugly ! local
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On Wed, May 23, 2007 at 09:21:10AM -0600, Aaron J. Seigo wrote:
> On Wednesday 23 May 2007, Alon Bar-Lev wrote:
> > All I say is that the cryptography should be looked at whole.
> 
> that's a fine goal. and one that can be done long term. let's try and
> start at the beginning, however, and get an API into kdelibs that
> provides smart card support.
> 
that's as wrong as it can get. apart from smartcards we have usb
dongles, RFID devices, cryptochips (TPM), a lot of devices that can only
store keys (magnetic cards, etc), and whatnot - and we have it *now*.
all the surroundings already exists. now is the time to for kde to unify
it to make it usable for joe user. it would be outright silly to
concentrate on a specific variation of the topic only.

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