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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@



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