From owner-freebsd-security Fri Jan 19 6:48:53 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Received: from critter.freebsd.dk (flutter.freebsd.dk [212.242.40.147]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C6C1537B402 for ; Fri, 19 Jan 2001 06:48:35 -0800 (PST) Received: from critter (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by critter.freebsd.dk (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id f0JEmUl97020; Fri, 19 Jan 2001 15:48:30 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from phk@critter.freebsd.dk) To: James Wyatt Cc: Michael Robinson , freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: A wish and a dream... In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 19 Jan 2001 07:43:35 CST." Date: Fri, 19 Jan 2001 15:48:29 +0100 Message-ID: <97018.979915709@critter> From: Poul-Henning Kamp Sender: owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org In message , 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