[TriLUG] OT: RSA Securid - how does it work?

[Kevin Flanagan]

Ron Joffe wrote:

> On Sunday 09 March 2008 16:48, Kevin Flanagan wrote:
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>> They did, but there aren't any tokens out there that were put out before
>> 2000, it's not relevant for what they do.
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We broke one of the new style black tokens apart, it's a resin blob,
there's a few chips and a battery, but you can't really get to it to do
anything.


> We had an early version of the token (it was a thick credit card sized device) 
> back in '95. You couldn't place it in your wallet since the display would 
> break with too much pressure. We were replacing the cards on a monthly basis 
> do to failures at that time.
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> I do not recall if those had an expiration date or not. Some one at the office 
> did take one apart that had succumbed to a drop or something similar, and as 
> I recall internally was only one chip, and a few analog components.
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> Ron
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