Hello Mary, Thursday, October 28, 2004, 6:44:28 PM, you wrote:
MB> Hello Tony! MB> On Thursday, October 28, 2004, 11:32 AM, you wrote: T>> Did I understand it correctly that the functionality of SecureBat T>> gets moved into TB Pro V3.x? MB> Yes. Available to be used only with "tokens" (I don't know what that MB> is or how it works) Tokens are little hardware keys. They come into several forms. - USB tokens like The cheapest solution. http://www.tw.rainbow.com/ikey/ikey1000_hw.html - Card readers. Often use to access (certain parts of) a office. - Biometrics. Only your thumb on the mouse will open TB! The tokens and cards contains randomly generated passwords with a complexity that goes far above what the human mind can remember. The strengths of those passwords match the strength of PGP. PGP/SecureBat! is like a vault with 1 meter thick steel walls. You hold the key/password. Password "1" or "Mary" doesn't exactly match the security offered by the vault. A really good key takes as long to guess as it takes to break down the steel wall. They keys can hold more then one password (depending on the keys type) So one key could give you access to for example. Your PGP keyring, TB!, windows login, a PIM. MB> at present. But fully functional later, at which MB> point the announcement said that SecureBat as a stand-alone would be MB> discontinued. That is some way into the future, I imagine. Can you give me the URL of that article please. Until now I've just heard it in the 'gossip circuit' :P -- Best regards, Tony Make it too tough for the enemy to get in and you can't get out. ________________________________________________ Current version is 3.0.1.33 | 'Using TBUDL' information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
