FOSS Smart Cards and Free Hardware

Posted by tuxchick on Aug 29, 2009 2:54 PM EDT
Linux Today; By Carla Schroder
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High on my list of obvious solutions to common problems is smart-card password management. Industry, when it ponders the issue at all, keeps offering centralized authentication schemes that they control. Nice user-controlled smart cards to use as password safes are apparently too user-friendly for the titans of tech. I was originally thinking of two types of smart cards: the traditional credit-card magnetic-stripe type that requires a scanner, and a little USB device.

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