[117013] in Cypherpunks
RE: Project: Hardening Crypto Against Big Brother's "BlackBag"
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (duncan.watson@aladdin.de)
Wed Aug 25 03:53:07 1999
From: duncan.watson@aladdin.de
To: cypherpunks@cyberpass.net
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Date: Wed, 25 Aug 1999 09:35:30 +0100
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Kurt,
Also see
http://www.aks.com/etoken/index.html
Admittedly I am biased as I work with the dev team of the eToken. I am
familiar with all three development groups, now if we could only these
integrated with our chosen suite of tools.
-Duncan
On 25.08.99 4:28:33 Kurt Buff wrote:
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>These two products are steps in the right direction...
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>http://www.rainbow.com/ikey/index.html
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>http://www.rfideas.com/
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>| From: owner-cypherpunks@toad.com
>| [mailto:owner-cypherpunks@toad.com]On Behalf Of steve bryan Sent:
>| Tuesday, August 24, 1999 13:28 To: John Haggerty Cc:
>| cypherpunks@cyberpass.net Subject: Re: Project: Hardening Crypto
>| Against Big Brother's "BlackBag" Intrusions
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>| >Hmm.. What would happen if you just planted couple hundred
>| pounds of dynamite
>| >and had it triggered when anyone entered the home except you
>| via some remote
>| >signaling device, then when they try to go into your house
>| the whole thing is
>| >blown to bits investigators, evidence, and all.
>|
>| There are already laws about schemes of this sort. People with
>| summer lake cottages tend to have problems with locals who can't
>| stand the temptation of unoccupied residences. To deal with the
>| frustration of persistent break-ins some absentee owners resort to
>| 'Rube Goldberg' trigger devices to punish the scofflaws. Much to
>| their consternation, though, they tend to lose civil (and even
>| criminal) cases to the failed perpetrator who gets injured (or
>| killed and his dependents sue).
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>| I've thought for some time that a PC card solution is probably
>| best. Have your system, certificates, PGP keys, all on a PC card
>| that you can always keep with you and boot your system from that.
>| Then the snoops can try to infect all the other stuff as much as
>| they want but fail to get anything worthwhile. All the fixed
>| partitions would be maintained as encrypted partitions that can't
>| be mounted without the keys that you keep on your PC card. I've
>| heard that firewire drives may soon include a ROM to allow them to
>| be bootable. They are physically small, sturdy, with ample
>| capacity, and high bandwidth. Maybe the scheme can soon be
>| implemented.
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Duncan Watson
Hardlock/HASP Product Manager
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