A fresh look at smartcards

The second in Lockstep's new series of brief white papers tries to round out the full value proposition for this still misunderstood technology.

Extract: A fresh alternative view recognises that smartcards bring a unique bundle of capabilities to protect and empower consumers [including] proving the true identity of online services, to combat phishing, pharming and web fraud, ... and encrypting not just one but multiple, diverse identifiers, to quarantine backend systems. Smartcards can therefore radically enhance privacy and security at the same time.

See /library/babysteps.