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Re: [Cryptography] Kindle as crypto hardware
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Theodore Ts'o)
Wed Dec 4 13:30:03 2013
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Date: Wed, 4 Dec 2013 09:50:09 -0500
From: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
To: Phillip Hallam-Baker <hallam@gmail.com>
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On Tue, Dec 03, 2013 at 11:39:27PM -0500, Phillip Hallam-Baker wrote:
> What I really want from a crypto key management device is that it be
>
> * Small and light
> * Have processor and display capabilities
> * Be possible to control the operating system build completely
> * Be cheap enough to be a burner machine
>
> Which is how I started thinking about the Kindle. It is pretty much ideal
> in every respect, at least after it is jailbroken.
>
> And very unlikely that anyone has backdoored the existing stocks.
Why not use an Arduino?
- Ted
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