begin quoting Tracy R Reed as of Thu, Mar 16, 2006 at 09:45:58AM -0800: [snip] > I think maybe what we need is a smart card that presents itself to the > host machine as a USB stick. It has a file that you write a challenge > into which gets processed by a cpu which has access to your private key > and a file which the host computer can then read the response out of.
I don't know of any smartcards that are providing two-way stream encryption, although that would be a really cool idea. There are usb smartcard readers (standalone and built into keyboards), I suspect that it's mostly a matter of standing up the software. I have a smartcard reader on my Blade, but I've never used it. Poor API documentation. :( -- _ |\_ \| -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
