Chip and PIN (diverging)

Ian Batten ukcrypto at chiark.greenend.org.uk
Fri, 25 Jan 2008 11:45:21 +0000


On 25 Jan 08, at 1128, David Hansen wrote:

> On 25 Jan 2008 at 5:51, lists@notatla.org.uk wrote:
>
>> You could also ask your bank whether their internal systems are  
>> secured
>> better or worse than they expect of customers' home computers.
>
> They will smugly reply that their computer systems are far more  
> secure.
>
> Some people might even believe them.

Does anyone know how to buy small quantities of hardware tokens?   
Vasco do an evaluation kit which is four (or perhaps six) tokens plus  
the software to use them for a couple of hundred quid, but the  
software is Windows-only.  I run a squirrelmail server for the users  
of batten.eu.org (wife, kids, parents, a few friends) and it's  
obviously fairly frequently accessed from insecure locations.   
Hardware tags would be a handy upgrade.  I'd need them to work on  
Solaris x86, ideally, or L*n*x if I have to.

ian