[ale] Smart cards

[Michael B. Trausch]

On Sun, Oct 09, 2011 at 02:53:17PM -0400, Michael H. Warfield wrote:
> In all that documentation, any references to "Schlumberger", "Axalto",
> "Gemalto", "Gemplus", or "Cyberflex", can be read as the Aladdin eToken
> Pros which you can purchase from CDW on-line.  Schlumberger sold their
> smartcard business to Atos Origin which spun it off as Axalto.  That
> later merged with Gemplus forming GemAlto.  The GemAlto eGate cards and
> tokens are now the Aladdin eTokens.  Same line of products.  The Gemalto
> stuff specifically referred to the credit card format smartcards.
> Unless you are talking about users with a dozen or more smart cards only
> requiring a single reader, it's almost impossible to justify the expense
> of the reader with the cheaper cards vs the slightly more expensive
> equivalent USB based tokens.

Mike W.,

Can I mail you off-list?  Not something I'd normally ask, but there
are some things on this topic that I can't have hit the archives and
that I need a bit of guidance with.

     Thanks,
     Mike T.