From owner-freebsd-security Thu Jan 18 21:20:38 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 91BE237B6A3 for ; Thu, 18 Jan 2001 21:20:09 -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 14InkJ-0000E4-00; Wed, 17 Jan 2001 01:15:07 -0700 Message-ID: <3A65548B.E3D7ADA4@softweyr.com> Date: Wed, 17 Jan 2001 01:15:07 -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: Pavol Adamec Cc: Borja Marcos , freebsd-security@freebsd.org Subject: Re: A wish and a dream... References: <3A641F3F.55AA9322@sarenet.es> <3A642174.9A7A8068@tempest.sk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Pavol Adamec wrote: > > Rainbow Technologies - iKey > > Paul. > > Borja Marcos wrote: > > > > 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. > > > > Is there anything commercially available? The iKey looks great, but I've been told it has a known exploit (a hard- coded keyphrase built into the hardware, or something like that.) You could easily store a passphrase on a read/write iButton from Dallas Semiconductor. They sell an experimenter's kit with a serial port reader and an iButton for $10 or $12. The code to interface to it is in ports, in /usr/ports/comms/mlan. See the URL references in the pkg-desr (or pkg/DESCR) file there for more into. -- "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