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Date:      Thu, 18 Jan 2001 22:25:10 -0800
From:      Jonas Luster <loki@smurftarget.net>
To:        freebsd-security@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: A wish and a dream...
Message-ID:  <20010118222510.A2382@netwarriors.org>
In-Reply-To: <3A6722AE.3830EDD9@softweyr.com>; from wes@softweyr.com on Thu, Jan 18, 2001 at 10:06:54AM -0700
References:  <3A641F3F.55AA9322@sarenet.es> <3A642174.9A7A8068@tempest.sk> <20010116100642.A59220@netwarriors.org> <3A6722AE.3830EDD9@softweyr.com>

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* Wes Peters sez:

> > > 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.

Hmm. We're doing lotsa business with Spectria/Rainbow. This sounds
definitely interesting enough to go ahead and ask them for a few test
devices :)

> > 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.

I stand corrected. I had a different price somewhere in the back of my
head. The portability issue still remains, tho.

jonas

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