Date: Fri, 19 Jan 2001 15:48:29 +0100 From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk> To: James Wyatt <jwyatt@rwsystems.net> Cc: Michael Robinson <robinson@netrinsics.com>, freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: A wish and a dream... Message-ID: <97018.979915709@critter> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 19 Jan 2001 07:43:35 CST." <Pine.BSF.4.10.10101190742060.37417-100000@bsdie.rwsystems.net>
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In message <Pine.BSF.4.10.10101190742060.37417-100000@bsdie.rwsystems.net>, Jam es Wyatt writes: >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"). The parallel port thing should be avoided. The serial port thing works great on all just moderately normal RS-232 ports. Havn't tried the USB thing. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message
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