[geeks] Interesting: hardware security token for PayPal

[Rick Hamell]

On 4/1/07 10:21 PM, "Dan Duncan" <danduncan at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 4/1/07, Charles Shannon Hendrix <shannon at widomaker.com> wrote:
>> How long would the card last in typical use?
> 
> I've had my RSA SecurID for over 2 years now.  I've never had a single
> problem with it
> or had to have it resynced or anything.  They do recommend we try to
> log in at the top of the minute (it has a little bar graph that counts
> down to the next minute) which would provide a slight fudge factor if
> the clock drifted a bit.

The battery is supposed to last seven years. We had less then 1% failure
rate on them. They were pretty robust. The only problem I had with them is
that you can't assign your pin number. So it was yet another password you
had to remember. A lot of people ended up writing the pin number down and
leaving it with the card. At least the powers that be were half-way smart,
they realized that and put in a second layer of security based on the user's
normal, every day password.

Rick