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Re: Best practices/HOWTO for key storage in small office/home office setting?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Enzo Michelangeli)
Tue Oct 2 20:43:35 2001
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From: "Enzo Michelangeli" <em@who.net>
To: <cryptography@wasabisystems.com>
Cc: "Bill Stewart" <bill.stewart@pobox.com>
Date: Wed, 3 Oct 2001 07:18:58 +0800
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Bill Stewart" <bill.stewart@pobox.com>
To: "Conspiracy" <>
Sent: Wednesday, October 03, 2001 12:41 AM
Subject: Re: Best practices/HOWTO for key storage in small office/home
office setting?
> At 07:23 PM 10/02/2001 +0300, Sampo Syreeni wrote:
> >Or integrate some computing power into those IBM thingies, and use
> >remotely keyed encryption. Enough power is available through USB so that
> >you don't have to end up with battery power.
>
> Sounds like you're starting to reinvent the I-Button.
> (Dallas semiconductor's product - uses a small computer chip
> and an infrared link attached to a watch battery.)
Infrared link? As far as I know, the primary interface is the so-called
1-Wire, that uses the power lines also for I/O. Inexpensive adapters are
available for serial and parallel ports, and there is also a USB fob
(DS1490F):
https://store.ibutton.com/cgi-bin/ncommerce3/CategoryDisplay?cgrfnbr=803&cgm
enbr=776&cg=803
Or else, there is the USB-only Rainbow iKey2000:
http://www.rainbow.com/ikey2000/index.html
Enzo
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