Hi ...
On Mon, 19 Jun 2000, Hannes Reinecke wrote:
> Hmm. What would be the advantage of that ?
> I mean, to do anything serious with it (ie connection to the outside
> world) you'd need to connect it via serial cable to some PC or
> Workstation. And that neccessarily involves a daemon to handle the
> connection between the PalmPilot and the rest of the world. So we can as
> well build the SSL-capabilities into the daemon und run the connection
> over the serial line unencrypted, since it is rather unlikely that
> someone would eavesdrop on a serial line which is only a couple of feet
> long (provided you are not in full paranoia mode, that is)(Anyone read
> the tempest document from mskuhn ?).
one simple thing:
you could encrypt and decrypt data on the palm. openssl is in fact meant
to be used for online communication (or better: for encryption of that),
but it also can be used to put ciphers on date offline.
one more complex thing:
imagine a simple tunnel on the PC you are directly connected with. i
don't know whether such a tunnel application exists, but it is possible.
then you could use every pc which has that tunnel to securely connect to
another pc with your palm and would be safe against the used PC because it
just tunnels and cannot read what it tunnels.
(just my $.02 ...)
Alfe
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