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Re: [Cryptography] Dumb idea: open-source hardware USB key for

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Peter Trei)
Tue Jan 14 10:52:59 2014

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Date: Tue, 14 Jan 2014 10:36:14 -0500
From: Peter Trei <petertrei@gmail.com>
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I only get the digest, so someone may have pointed this out already:

http://makezine.com/2014/01/07/how-i-built-a-raspberry-pi-tablet/

...pretty much what you're asking for.

Peter Trei
BAE Systems


Message: 2
> Date: Sun, 12 Jan 2014 11:01:43 +0300
> From: ianG <iang@iang.org>
> To: Bill Cox <waywardgeek@gmail.com>,   "cryptography@metzdowd.com"
>         <cryptography@metzdowd.com>
> Subject: Re: [Cryptography] Dumb idea: open-source hardware USB key
>         for     crypto
> Message-ID: <52D24BE7.40200@iang.org>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed
>
> On 11/01/14 01:53 AM, Bill Cox wrote:
> > I've been noodling the idea of a USB stick designed in a way that we
> > can trust the crypto that goes on there.  It's a hard problem, but
> > there seems to be some guidelines that could help:
> ...
> > The idea still has issues.
>
>
> Responding to all, it seems that the only constant here is USB, and
> nobody's particularly wedded to that.
>
> So, we don't know what the best solution is.
>
>
> >  Could we make such a beast?
>
>
> Let a thousand flowers bloom.  Get your ideas out and try it.  One thing
> is clear:  not having anything is generally less secure than having
> something...
>
> iang
>
>
>

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<div dir=3D"ltr"><div><div><div>I only get the digest, so someone may have =
pointed this out already:<br><br><a href=3D"http://makezine.com/2014/01/07/=
how-i-built-a-raspberry-pi-tablet/">http://makezine.com/2014/01/07/how-i-bu=
ilt-a-raspberry-pi-tablet/</a><br>
<br></div>...pretty much what you&#39;re asking for.<br><br></div>Peter Tre=
i<br></div>BAE Systems<br><br><div><div><div><div><div class=3D"gmail_extra=
"><br><div class=3D"gmail_quote"><blockquote class=3D"gmail_quote" style=3D=
"margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-le=
ft:1ex">

Message: 2<br>
Date: Sun, 12 Jan 2014 11:01:43 +0300<br>
From: ianG &lt;<a href=3D"mailto:iang@iang.org">iang@iang.org</a>&gt;<br>
To: Bill Cox &lt;<a href=3D"mailto:waywardgeek@gmail.com">waywardgeek@gmail=
.com</a>&gt;, =A0 &quot;<a href=3D"mailto:cryptography@metzdowd.com">crypto=
graphy@metzdowd.com</a>&quot;<br>
=A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 &lt;<a href=3D"mailto:cryptography@metzdowd.com">cryptograp=
hy@metzdowd.com</a>&gt;<br>
Subject: Re: [Cryptography] Dumb idea: open-source hardware USB key<br>
=A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 for =A0 =A0 crypto<br>
Message-ID: &lt;<a href=3D"mailto:52D24BE7.40200@iang.org">52D24BE7.40200@i=
ang.org</a>&gt;<br>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=3DISO-8859-1; format=3Dflowed<br>
<br>
On 11/01/14 01:53 AM, Bill Cox wrote:<br>
&gt; I&#39;ve been noodling the idea of a USB stick designed in a way that =
we<br>
&gt; can trust the crypto that goes on there. =A0It&#39;s a hard problem, b=
ut<br>
&gt; there seems to be some guidelines that could help:<br>
...<br>
&gt; The idea still has issues.<br>
<br>
<br>
Responding to all, it seems that the only constant here is USB, and<br>
nobody&#39;s particularly wedded to that.<br>
<br>
So, we don&#39;t know what the best solution is.<br>
<br>
<br>
&gt; =A0Could we make such a beast?<br>
<br>
<br>
Let a thousand flowers bloom. =A0Get your ideas out and try it. =A0One thin=
g<br>
is clear: =A0not having anything is generally less secure than having<br>
something...<br>
<br>
iang<br>
<br>
<br></blockquote></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>

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