Ron K. Jeffries wrote: > If someone wishes to store e.g. passwords in anelok but only retrieve by > reading the anelok display (i.e. not having anelok pump bits into an > attached vua USB or someday Bluetooth) computer... is this possible?
Of course. Anelok has a display, why would it stubbornly refuse to use it ? :-) Besides, there are countless systems that want a code but who wouldn't talk to us (and in some cases not to anyone at all), e.g., building access controls, ATMs, etc. I envision the following "readout" methods: - display and leave the rest to the user, - display and let user optionally choose some additional transmission path, - do not display and use alternative path (not sure how much choice the user should have over the path at the time of readout - in some cases you'll prefer not to know the password). If the retrieval is triggered from the outside, e.g., by a browser (asking via a plugin that in turn uses HIDDEV to talk to Anelok), not displaying the password would make sense as default option, since there is already a communication channel that doesn't need displaying. And let's not forget the "out of the box" scenario: even if I should adopt some belief that passwords must never be displayed (for showing them would mock the all-knowing Flying Spaghetti Monster, by suggesting that it would not have known it if had not been displayed), you are free to ignore my foibles and install a firmware from someone less crazy and whom you (still) prefer to trust. - Werner _______________________________________________ Qi Hardware Discussion List Mail to list (members only): [email protected] Subscribe or Unsubscribe: http://lists.en.qi-hardware.com/mailman/listinfo/discussion
