I actually burn my private keys, locked with an access phrase, onto one of
those credit card CDs, together with teraterm software so that I can
support my client's from anywhere that I have Windows and Internet access.
For Linux and Internet access then I only need the keys as the clients
have ssh client on them already. The CD goes in my wallet.
This probably still doesn't overcome the problem of the CD image being
carried in user memory space tho.
Anyone know how to stop the CD image being carried in memory space?
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Howard.
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--me
On Wed, 28 Feb 2001, Conrad Parker wrote:
>
> Remember that ssh uses host keys for encryption, not personal keys. A
> host's private key is stored on disk and is available to anyone with
> root access.
>
> (cf. personal encryption software, such as GPG, which allows you to store
> your private key on a floppy disk in your shirt pocket, and can take steps
> to ensure that key data is only ever kept in memory and never paged to
> disk).
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