cross-posted from: lemmy.blahaj.zone/post/31922512
I recently picked up an older but perfectly adequate HP Z Book Firefly with a built-in smart card reader and I’m wondering what possible use is this little bit of tech? Can I, like, auth with my credit card or whatever? (mostly joking, I briefly looked at the PAM config for that and prefer my current hobbies lol)
jaredj@infosec.pub 5 hours ago
openpgp smartcard www.floss-shop.de/de/…/smartcards/
smartcards + computers didn’t really pick up in the US outside the Department of Defense, which issued them. now that FIDO tokens are here, everybody’s got a USB socket but not many people have a smartcard reader.
it’s mostly just a very flat serial port