From owner-freebsd-security Tue Mar 6 18:27:50 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Received: from monarch.prairienet.org (monarch.prairienet.org [192.17.3.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 8102137B718 for ; Tue, 6 Mar 2001 18:27:47 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dtalk@prairienet.org) Received: (qmail 19846 invoked from network); 7 Mar 2001 02:27:44 -0000 Received: from slip-42.prairienet.org (HELO littleblue.spotnet.org) (192.17.3.62) by monarch.prairienet.org with SMTP; 7 Mar 2001 02:27:44 -0000 Received: from localhost (dtalk@localhost) by littleblue.spotnet.org (8.11.0/8.9.3) with ESMTP id f272RfS01285; Tue, 6 Mar 2001 20:27:43 -0600 X-Authentication-Warning: littleblue.spotnet.org: dtalk owned process doing -bs Date: Tue, 6 Mar 2001 20:27:38 -0600 (CST) From: David Talkington X-Sender: To: Robert Clark Cc: Subject: Re: [OT] cordless keyboards In-Reply-To: <20010306182045.A46579@darkstar.gte.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Robert Clark wrote: >> Does anyone know how difficult it might be to sniff one of these >> devices? Logitech marketing info claims that it's "digitally secure", >I think my brother's keyboard has a dip switch under it. > >It might take a while to work through all the combinations, but >not too long. Logitech claims that the device uses a "randomly set digital security code". It's synchronized by pressing a button on the receiver, and then a "connect" button on the bottom of the keyboard. This is operationally similar to the way some cars' keyless entry transmitters are initialized. - -d - -- David Talkington Prairienet dtalk@prairienet.org 217-244-1962 PGP key: http://www.prairienet.org/~dtalk/dt000823.asc -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGP 6.5.8 Comment: Made with pgp4pine 1.75-6 iQEVAwUBOqWcnb1ZYOtSwT+tAQGTzAf/RT6vcKURw4FZ+IycXM1ONIBxf9N+rt7V F3PV/fA4OAyxuw15Nb1u/eJaQDjkTZc1o/RlnUQvzyAI7OSe/MrmzMSoIk2uxEeA PnDTWmpA5oxw6t/FYkD8TVaXc+tDeFwbXJL2xrHxknHDpx0EKEah+2NjwXfsc6mJ Xt0cuNaW06tj68T0Us2jwPasSWXceE/07ZvwAuy0VQj6w2GRLs1ReS+dMSm9Qw8X E5b+Q8+dOAM91QR+/vnKJIP3UDKs2frGujLkmbK8BnsnPvUP5Bx9G2UkDy9V24E/ YX38KgbsqNOBs8khvWU7Oa6wQcb0j5eN73+F7m6Al845305m188AhA== =KrV7 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message