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. -- Lan Barnes [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux Guy, SCM Specialist 858-354-0616 -- KPLUG-List mailing list [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
