You design the ultimate information system that any of hundreds of professionals would gladly pay to access. Or maybe your employer has asked you to develop an intranet where your fellow employees can freely exchange ideas in one or more private forums. Perhaps, you are the MIS director for a law firm which has wanted to jump on the Internet band wagon, but are concerned about the security of http and mime transmissions. Offering equal or better security than Certificates, Smart Cards can be programmed with Digital Certificates and information unique to the holder and used to restrict access to most Internet functions to only the individual holding that card. The holder need not remember any codes, the authentication process is fully encrypted, and proper server-side administration should limit access at any given time to one person per card.
Authentication is also completely portable.
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