[geeks] Interesting: hardware security token for PayPal

[Charles Shannon Hendrix]

Sun, 01 Apr 2007 @ 09:54 +0300, Geoffrey S. Mendelson said:

> On Sun, Apr 01, 2007 at 01:39:54AM -0400, Charles Shannon Hendrix wrote:
> > At $JOB around 1996 we were shown a code generator that had a unique salt and
> > serial on each unit.  It also was supposed to not go through the number pool
> > in the same order or sequence each time, and instead of repeating, the card
> > died.
> 
> I had one about 5 years ago. It worked pretty well, the timeout was about
> one minute on this one. They have a habit of going out of sync, so the
> software at the other end has to generate several numbers and resync itself.

How long would the card last in typical use?


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