Re: Crypto dongles to secure online transactions

2009-11-18 Thread John Levine
In this case, heck, no. The whole point of this thing is that it is NOT remotely programmable to keep malware out. Which is perhaps why it is not a good idea to embed an SSL engine in such a device. Agreed. A display and signing engine would be quite adequate. Such a device does however

Re: Crypto dongles to secure online transactions

2009-11-18 Thread Bill Frantz
jo...@iecc.com (John Levine) on Wednesday, November 18, 2009 wrote: Such a device does however need to be able to suppor multiple mutually distrusting verifiers, thus the destination public key is managed by the untrusted PC + browser, only the device signing key is inside the trust boundary. A