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On 03/20/2013 04:47 AM, Michael Hampicke wrote: |
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> Am 20.03.2013 03:58, schrieb Michael Mol: |
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>> Does anybody know of time lock flash drives? |
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>> The scenario I'm looking at is to have a drive that's only accessible |
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>> for a certain amount of time after being powered on. It would hold |
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>> crypto keys in a server context. |
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> I am no expert on embedded systems, but couldn't you achieve something |
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> like this by using a small dev board with like an Atmel controller? |
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> Which you then program to act like an USB stick? |
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We discussed using a simple RC timer to cut power to the device after a |
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certain amount of uptime, but if I pointed out that if we were spend the |
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time going to that trouble, we may as well go whole-hog and add built-in |
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encryption and make money off the thing. |
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I think the grab-data-and-eject solution is probably the best for our |
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purposes. |
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