Date: 21 Dec 1998 18:08:38 +0100 From: Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@flood.ping.uio.no> To: Gregory Sutter <gsutter@pobox.com> Cc: Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@flood.ping.uio.no>, security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: preventing single user login w/o password Message-ID: <xzpr9tte82x.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no> In-Reply-To: Gregory Sutter's message of "Mon, 21 Dec 1998 08:53:55 -0800" References: <199812211324.IAA27266@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com> <xzpww3lecjq.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no> <19981221085355.A10360@orcrist.mediacity.com>
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Gregory Sutter <gsutter@pobox.com> writes: > On Mon, Dec 21, 1998 at 04:32:09PM +0100, Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote: > > Well, you can translate physical access to the computer into physical > > access to a more manageable item, such as a Java ring, if you use some > > kind of hardware device which strongly encrypts your disks and keep > > the encryption key on the Java ring. > Okay, it's 8:45 AM, and I'm still tired, but the first thing that came > into my mind was an actual ring that one wears upon a finger. Then I > wondered about using that as a physical security key. It would be > easy to put a small chip or 2 in a ring; the reader could be sitting > in a 5.25" slot until cases are specially built for the device, which > would be plugged into the motherboard and prevent all input or > somesuch mechanism until the chip is detected. Congratulations on your new invention! Though I'm afraid it's already patented by Sun Microsystems :) DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - des@flood.ping.uio.no To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message
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