From owner-freebsd-security Mon Dec 21 09:11:58 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id JAA19930 for freebsd-security-outgoing; Mon, 21 Dec 1998 09:11:58 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from flood.ping.uio.no (flood.ping.uio.no [129.240.78.31]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id JAA19925 for ; Mon, 21 Dec 1998 09:11:56 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from des@flood.ping.uio.no) Received: (from des@localhost) by flood.ping.uio.no (8.9.1/8.9.1) id SAA35974; Mon, 21 Dec 1998 18:08:38 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from des) To: Gregory Sutter Cc: Dag-Erling Smorgrav , security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: preventing single user login w/o password References: <199812211324.IAA27266@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com> <19981221085355.A10360@orcrist.mediacity.com> From: Dag-Erling Smorgrav Date: 21 Dec 1998 18:08:38 +0100 In-Reply-To: Gregory Sutter's message of "Mon, 21 Dec 1998 08:53:55 -0800" Message-ID: Lines: 20 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.5/Emacs 19.34 Sender: owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Gregory Sutter 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