Secure banking transactions for all

This from the BSI (Federal Office for Security in Information Technology) certified card reader is recommended without reservation. Who the setup.exe on the CD, which also contains the operating instructions, clicks, is asked whether he wants to search for a newer driver and passed at a Yes on the side of ReinerSCT ([...]). Of course, you might as well go there and ignore the CD.

The greatest benefit of this card reader is located in the UK and to ensure safe online banking transactions after the HBCI standard. This protection lies in the interaction of the following components:

1. smart card
The personal smart card is issued by the respective financial institution. It contains the data key (RSA 768 bits) for communicating with the bank.

2. Personal Identification Number
The personal identification number complicates the abusive use of the smart card.

3. input via card reader keyboard
Finally, type in the secret code on the keyboard of the tamper-card reader so that it will be passed without going through the potentially contaminated Trojans PC directly to the smart card. Encryption is performed in the smart card reader and not on the computer.

In [...] [...] bsi.de and [...] can be found, incidentally, a number of further information on the new ID card and data security issues in general.

Another practical note: The USB port on the back is easily concealed, so that it takes a bit of tact for the unique plugging and fixing the mini-USB cable. One thinks only that it did not fit; but beware.