begin  quoting John H. Robinson, IV as of Fri, Jan 28, 2005 at 09:59:52AM -0800:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > 
> > I've not had good luck with this approach and wondered how
> > others securely call home on a foreign Windoze box.
> 
> Unless the system is under your control, you don't. End of statement.
> 
> If there is a keylogger, and you use a passphrase to unluck your key,
> the attacker has your key and passphrase. Not a good combination.

This is why laptops are nice. All you need is an untrusted network;
you are in control of the display, keyboard, mouse, and CPU that
performs the authentication and encryption.

-Stewart
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