To: Rex Ballard 
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Rex--

Thanks for the information on SoftCard, and I'm sorry its
taken me so long to respond.   (We're putting up the SoftLock
Server on the World Wide Web). SoftCard does sound similar in
spirit to what we're doing, but our system has more spirit I think,
since it can do the same thing using no specialized hardware at
the User end, and if incorporated into the User's software, can
be completely transparent.

Have you got a project in mind that we can work together on?

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Jonathan Schull, Ph.D., President, SoftLock Services Inc. Schull@SoftLock.com
963 East Ave. #1, Rochester, NY 14607-2251           716-242-0348 (voice/fax)
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On Fri, 25 Feb 1994, Rex Ballard wrote:

> 
> SoftCard is something that looks like a credit card sized calculator
> that displays numbers on the LCD.  The number changes every 30-60 seconds.
> The user can use a common client such as telnet or FTP but the server
> calls the company with the card number to authenticate the user.
> 
> It's similar to Kerberos, but does not require special clients.
> 
> It appears your system does something similar using a "key" coder.
> 
> I'm looking for some transparent alternatives for controlling access to
> some commercial internet servers.  Your product sounds very intresting.
> 



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