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Re: Keyfile
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Matt Blaze)
Mon Apr 27 22:04:16 1998
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Subject: Re: Keyfile
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From: Matt Blaze <mab@research.att.com>
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> If you happen to relocate the file to a floppy disk, you have created a
> key disk, and both the disk and your password are now required to decrypt
> the corresponding directory. (I haven't tested it, but I doubt you can
> just "cat ..k >/dev/floppy"; you'd probably have to make a file system
> on the floppy, mv the file to the floppy filesystem and make sure the
> file system was mounted each time you wanted to do the cattach.)
I just tried, under BSDI, creating a ..k file that's a symlink to
/dev/fd0, and what do you know, it works.
Of course, this is not an especially great way to accomplish this, but
it does work.
-matt
