Re: A wish and a dream...

From: James Wyatt (jwyatt@rwsystems.net)
Date: 01/19/01 

Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2001 23:44:45 -0600 (CST)
From: James Wyatt <jwyatt@rwsystems.net>
To: Wes Peters <wes@softweyr.com>

On Thu, 18 Jan 2001, Wes Peters wrote:
> Jonas Luster wrote:
> > For my BSD-machines I've bought a Compact Flash 16MB card and some
> > CFreaders for the desktops and stored my PGP and SSH stuff on them. A
> > small script mounts and unmounts the CF-card (which announces itself to
> > the OS as a new file system) under .keys, and .ssh, .pgp and .gpg have
> > the needed symlinks.
> >
> > This seems so far the most cost-effective and portable solution.
>
> Versus $10 for an iButton reader and $2 for an iButton? You'd have to write
> code to extract the keys from the iButton, though. Being able to mount the
> CF device is a nice advantage.

The iButton also has a CryptoKey which can hold actual passphrases or
passwords intact until you give it a key. Maybe I also want the
temperature when I authenticate... (^_^) The iButton stuff isn't hard to
handle. It would be nice to have a PAM interface for it. - Jy@

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