From owner-freebsd-security Thu Jan 18 21:20:18 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Received: from homer.softweyr.com (bsdconspiracy.net [208.187.122.220]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3857E37B402 for ; Thu, 18 Jan 2001 21:19:45 -0800 (PST) Received: from [127.0.0.1] (helo=softweyr.com ident=Fools trust ident!) by homer.softweyr.com with esmtp (Exim 3.16 #1) id 14JIWU-0000Ns-00; Thu, 18 Jan 2001 10:06:54 -0700 Message-ID: <3A6722AE.3830EDD9@softweyr.com> Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2001 10:06:54 -0700 From: Wes Peters Organization: Softweyr LLC X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.75 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.2.12 i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jonas Luster Cc: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Subject: Re: A wish and a dream... References: <3A641F3F.55AA9322@sarenet.es> <3A642174.9A7A8068@tempest.sk> <20010116100642.A59220@netwarriors.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Jonas Luster wrote: > > [ Reformatted for readers sanity ] > > * Pavol Adamec sez: > > > > I know the subject suggests an SPAM, but it isn't. > > > > > > 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. > > > Rainbow Technologies - iKey > > If I understand the webpage correctly, then this is not a storage medium > for random keys and such... but myabe I'm missing this fetaure. It's a small writable flash memory in a USB dongle. Conceptually, it should work fine for storing small blobs of data like a key. > For my BSD-machines I've bought a Compact Flash 16MB card and some > CFreaders for the desktops and stored my PGP and SSH stuff on them. A > small script mounts and unmounts the CF-card (which announces itself to > the OS as a new file system) under .keys, and .ssh, .pgp and .gpg have > the needed symlinks. > > This seems so far the most cost-effective and portable solution. Versus $10 for an iButton reader and $2 for an iButton? You'd have to write code to extract the keys from the iButton, though. Being able to mount the CF device is a nice advantage. -- "Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?" Wes Peters Softweyr LLC wes@softweyr.com http://softweyr.com/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message