On Fri, Jan 28, 2005 at 11:14:53AM -0800, Stewart Stremler wrote:
> 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.
> 

... and you can ignore the little guy outside the door with the Tempest
box.

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Lan Barnes                    [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Linux Guy, SCM Specialist     858-354-0616
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