plugging things into things seems like a rather short-sightt requirement
for a relationship.

joel

On 11/15/11 12:13 , Stephen [kiwin] Palm wrote:
> My phone cannot mount usb devices. Have nio interest to remove the sdcard
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> Senior Technical Director                             T: +1-949-926-PALM
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> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Joe Touch [mailto:[email protected]]
> Sent: Monday, November 14, 2011 07:44 PM
> To: Michael Richardson <[email protected]>
> Cc: homenet <[email protected]>
> Subject: Re: [homenet] secret sharing among devices
> 
> 
> 
> On 11/14/2011 7:23 PM, Michael Richardson wrote:
>>>>>>> "Joe" == Joe Touch<[email protected]>  writes:
>>      >>  There have been various discussion in PHL about spreading a secret 
>> among
>>      >>  devices so they can authenticate each other.
>>      >>
>>      >>  A super cool idea is a specifically formatted file on a USB drive,
>>      >>  inserted into each system in turn.  While we might be pretty sure
>>      >>  the USB drive (and file system and connector, etc.) is out of 
>> scope, the
>>      >>  format for that secret file might be well in scope
>>
>>      Joe>  Doesn't that assume the device has a USB connector and can
>>      Joe>  mount a stick as a drive? While that's common on PCs, it's not
>>      Joe>  on home router boxes AFAICT. Many have no USB at all.
>>
>> 1) Joe, "the USB drive is out of scope".
>>     What matters is that you have some method to get the file into the
>>     device. How is less important.
> 
> Agreed. That was my primary point.
> 
>> 2) a USB port is increasing common on home routers, it's where you plug
>>     the printer in, or the 16G key or 1TB disk, as the home router
>>     provides NAS as well.
> 
> Verizon doesn't include USB ports on their routers. YMMV, but Verizon is 
> a fairly large home network provider.
> 
> Joe
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