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To: Ann Williams who wrote (7333)	3/23/1998 3:57:00 PM
From: Wesley0428	Respond to of 26039

National Semi and Identix. I know this is 20 months old, but does anyone know what happened to this partnership? <<<Posted by Venugopal on August 16, 1996 at 19:08:07: Something very interesting to read....... Electronic Buyer News, 07-29-96, p. 03 Encryption ICs Enable Ironclad Net Security By Jack Robertson Washington: New encryption ICs on PCMCIA cards will be unveiled imminently to allow PC users to make transactions over the Internet with ironclad security..... Both National Semiconductor Corp. and VLSI Technology Inc. plan to unveil affordable chips shortly for PCMCIA encryption cards.... National is already selling the U.S. government a special crypto card called Fortessa priced at about $70 in volume..... Furthermore, National is working on a PC security system that will take an electronic image of the PCMCIA cardholder's thumbprint to authenticate the user, sources said..... The private PCMCIA card itself is totally secure if lost or stolen, Sweet said; anyone trying to break into the encryption chip will destroy it in the process, he said. National's thumb-scan project, which aims to provide an additional security factor, is a joint effort with Identix Inc., Sunnyvale, Calif. In this system, a holographic laser chip on the card would image a portion of the holder's thumbprint. That image will be compared with the holder's digital thumbprint pattern stored on a memory chip in the card. A spokesman for Identix confirmed that such a PCMCIA card thumbprint detection system is in development, but declined to identify the project partner. Identix currently makes an electronic fingerprint imaging system for the New York City police department and other law enforcement agencies to transmit digital patterns from squad cars to central data banks for rapid fingerprint analysis and identification.>>>