Re: On-line signature standards

Peter Williams home_pw@xxxxxxx wrote:

>With Phillips now shipping the low-power
>802.11b chips for use in GSM handsets, you will
>soon see the SIM chip of your phone authenticating
>to merchant terminals much as we now authenticate by presenting
>a ICC on a plastic carrier to a swipe/smartcard reader. (IE.
>finally we will have broken the smartcard US adoption barrrier: 
>removal of the cost of the consumer reader!)

The last line I support 100%, the lines above I am less certain
about as the SIM has one huge drawback: It is "owned" by an
operator who do not generally like the idea to share the SIM
with other issuers of identities like banks.  It seems that this
is point where the mobile phone industry get stuck and fail to get
their act together.

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Anders