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To: Hockeyfan who wrote (13674)	5/26/1999 1:12:00 PM
From: David	Respond to of 26039

PC Magazine (June 22) looks into the future: "[T]he public key encryption-based digital certificates that now have limited use in browsers will become commonplace. They will be usable by any program and be a feature of future smart card identity systems. More important, there will be a growing number of third-party certificate authorities--governmental agencies, communications services providers, and for-profit services vendors--acting as middlemen to vouch for your digital identity in e-commerce and other applications without requiring you to divulge personal information. "Novell recently announced digitalme, a software architecture to let consumers create and manage their digital identities for Internet commerce. This technology is particularly interesting because it attempts to implement the approach increasingly promoted by privacy advocates--personal control of your own identifying data. You'll be able to determine exactly which personal data you share with or sell to any Web site you visit. You could even establish multiple personal identities for different activities--say, one that's specific and verifiable for e-commerce and another that's more anonymous for Web chat." ============ No mention of biometric authentication in there, but it fits right into a privacy-friendly, digitalme type universe, along with PKI providers like VRSN and Entrust.

To: Hockeyfan who wrote (13674)	5/26/1999 1:27:00 PM
From: David	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 26039

Newsweek (May 31) looks into the future: "When can this vision be realized? Pundits estimate a minimum five to seven-year time frame before the new technologies arrive, bandwidth gets higher and a long list of consortiums and alliances agree on common standards. But pieces of the vision fall into place almost daily. Dozens of information appliances do a good job of specialized tasks, and the PalmPilot's success has alvanized the industry. The Palm VII, introduced this week, breaks ground with its easy Internet connection, and will spur content providers to rethink Web pages to serve tiny screens. "The next leap may be in merging mobile phones with the Net. In gadget-crazy Finland, people are using their Nokias to pay bills, access bus schedules on the mobile-phone display and punch in payment codes for car washes and jukebox tunes." ================ Motorola, anyone?