On Thursday 16 March 2006 09:45 am, Tracy R Reed wrote: > Somebody wrote: > > > USB sticks - spread, can attach almost to any half way modern computer. > > Smart card reader - about as common as BeOS. > > I agree on your security thoughts, but what good is a key that doesn't > > fit any lock. > > 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. > > -- > Tracy R Reed
I have to believe that someone will make a "smart" USB stick soon. There are just too many applications possible with such a beast for it not to appear. BobLQ -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
