[Asterisk-Dev] Smartcards

[Tom Dickenson]

Talking about smartcard phones, using a smartcard to authencate the dialer.
Could be used for various things such as access to long distance and various
other things.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Michael Giagnocavo" <mgg-digium at atrevido.net>
To: <asterisk-dev at lists.digium.com>
Sent: Wednesday, March 30, 2005 5:55 PM
Subject: RE: [Asterisk-Dev] Smartcards


> You mean to make phone calls or what? I suppose in a high-security
> environment, a smartcard authenticated phone would be an interesting idea.
A
> lot stronger than a 4-digit PIN.
>
> Not sure what you mean by multi-server? Like Inter-server authentication?
In
> that case, I'd say smartcards could perhaps be less secure than keeping
the
> RSA keys on disk. Depends on the environment. Unless you meant smartcard
> authentication to logon to the server or something...
>
> -Michael
>
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>
> Been sittin here thinking about a use for smartcards and asterisk in a
> multi-server operation. I think thier could be a good use for such
> technology and asterisk (optional feature of course)
>
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