Re: A wish and a dream...

From: Darren Reed (avalon@coombs.anu.edu.au)
Date: 01/17/01 

From: Darren Reed <avalon@coombs.anu.edu.au>
To: peter.jeremy@alcatel.com.au (Peter Jeremy)
Date: Wed, 17 Jan 2001 18:42:52 +1100 (EST)

In some mail from Peter Jeremy, sie said:
> On 2001-Jan-16 11:15:27 +0100, Borja Marcos <borjamar@sarenet.es> wrote:
> > It would be great to have a small gadget (for example, with
> >an USB interface) with the ssh private key stored, so that ssh used it
> >to authenticate instead of having to store the key in the disk.
> >
> > Is there anything commercially available?
>
> Dallas Semiconductor iButton: http://www.ibutton.com/

There is also the Rainbow Technologies iKey (don't ask me for a URL).

I use the iKey 2000 with Windows/Netscape quite successfully. If it
is plugged into the USB port, I can read encrypted mail, if it's not,
I can't (using IE means the key info is copied from the device to the
system registry).

If only they'd release specs.

Darren

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