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Gates Calls For Move To Smart Cards
From: Patrick Oonk <patrick () PINE NL>
Date: Wed, 10 May 2000 07:38:04 +0200
(05/09/00, 2:32 p.m. ET) By Stuart Glascock, TechWeb News LAS VEGAS -- Microsoft chairman and chief software architect Bill Gates said passwords are the weakest link in IT security and called on hardware vendors and developers to push for advances in smart cards. "We need to move away from passwords as the dominant approach to authentication," Gates said in his opening keynote address Tuesday at Networld+Interop 2000. "There is a lot of work to be done in the industry to get this bootstrapped. This is going to be a huge milestone as end-user authentication moves to smart cards." Microsoft (stock: MSFT) is working with Atmel (stock: ATML) to develop secure smart card systems using a special version of the Windows operating system and the chip company's flash-based smart card ICs. Gates also called interoperability a key industry focus for the next few years. (Concurrently, Microsoft announced the release of the second version Windows Services for Unix.) He also noted that the Internet age has only just begun. "The Internet will change more dramatically in the next five years than in its entire history," he said. "We have just seen the beginning. We are on the verge of moving beyond that transaction phase to where we can think of the Internet as platform." http://www.techweb.com/wire/story/TWB20000509S0010 -- Patrick Oonk - PO1-6BONE - patrick () pine nl - www.pine.nl/~patrick Pine Internet - PAT31337-RIPE - PGP keyID BE7497F1 - XOIP 0208723350 Tel: +31-70-3111010 - Fax: +31-70-3111011 - http://security.nl PGP fingerprint A6 12 66 7F 22 84 1B E5 73 8C 99 F7 17 7B A3 98 Excuse of the day: no "any" key on keyboard ISN is sponsored by SecurityFocus.com --- To unsubscribe email LISTSERV () SecurityFocus com with a message body of "SIGNOFF ISN".
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