Contactless Smart Cards, RFID, Payment, Transit and Security

New thin batteries give juice to secure card-based transactions

Tuesday, August 22, 2006 in Library


Sure, One-Time-Password (OTP) devices are cumbersome. But hackers are relentless and pervasive. What’s a U.S. bank with fussy consumers to do? One answer: in lieu of a dedicated OTP apparatus, issue credit cards with ultra thin batteries, specially designed for insertion into cards, and capable of driving powerful transactions … such as generating numeric passwords ala OTP.

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