From owner-freebsd-security Fri Jan 19 5:45:10 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Received: from bsdie.rwsystems.net (bsdie.rwsystems.net [209.197.223.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6208E37B400 for ; Fri, 19 Jan 2001 05:44:52 -0800 (PST) Received: from bsdie.rwsystems.net([209.197.223.2]) (1158 bytes) by bsdie.rwsystems.net via sendmail with P:esmtp/R:bind_hosts/T:inet_zone_bind_smtp (sender: ) id for ; Fri, 19 Jan 2001 07:43:36 -0600 (CST) (Smail-3.2.0.111 2000-Feb-17 #1 built 2000-Jun-25) Date: Fri, 19 Jan 2001 07:43:35 -0600 (CST) From: James Wyatt To: Michael Robinson Cc: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Subject: Re: A wish and a dream... In-Reply-To: <200101182235.f0IMZZc62512@netrinsics.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Fri, 19 Jan 2001, Michael Robinson wrote: > >I stand corrected. I had a different price somewhere in the back of my > >head. The portability issue still remains, tho. > > Dallas Semiconductor has an IButton reader that is basically a DB-9 > serial dongle with a small cradle for the button. You could take that and > plug it into any handy RS-232 port (with the proviso that the port can support > the funky and non-standard "one wire protocol"). They have a Parallel port version and a USB version now. The USB thingie and the iButton now fit on a keyring. - Jy@ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message