Date: Wed, 17 Jan 2001 18:42:52 +1100 (EST) From: Darren Reed <avalon@coombs.anu.edu.au> To: peter.jeremy@alcatel.com.au (Peter Jeremy) Cc: borjamar@sarenet.es, freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: A wish and a dream... Message-ID: <200101170742.SAA25466@caligula.anu.edu.au> In-Reply-To: <20010117151058.B98607@gsmx07.alcatel.com.au> from Peter Jeremy at "Jan 17, 1 03:10:58 pm"
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In some mail from Peter Jeremy, sie said: > On 2001-Jan-16 11:15:27 +0100, Borja Marcos <borjamar@sarenet.es> wrote: > > It would be great to have a small gadget (for example, with > >an USB interface) with the ssh private key stored, so that ssh used it > >to authenticate instead of having to store the key in the disk. > > > > Is there anything commercially available? > > Dallas Semiconductor iButton: http://www.ibutton.com/ There is also the Rainbow Technologies iKey (don't ask me for a URL). I use the iKey 2000 with Windows/Netscape quite successfully. If it is plugged into the USB port, I can read encrypted mail, if it's not, I can't (using IE means the key info is copied from the device to the system registry). If only they'd release specs. Darren To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message
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