Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2001 23:44:45 -0600 (CST) From: James Wyatt <jwyatt@rwsystems.net> To: Wes Peters <wes@softweyr.com> Cc: Jonas Luster <loki@smurftarget.net>, freebsd-security@freebsd.org Subject: Re: A wish and a dream... Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.10.10101182342290.37417-100000@bsdie.rwsystems.net> In-Reply-To: <3A6722AE.3830EDD9@softweyr.com>
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On Thu, 18 Jan 2001, Wes Peters wrote: > Jonas Luster wrote: > > 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. The iButton also has a CryptoKey which can hold actual passphrases or passwords intact until you give it a key. Maybe I also want the temperature when I authenticate... (^_^) The iButton stuff isn't hard to handle. It would be nice to have a PAM interface for it. - Jy@ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message
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