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From: Michael Orlitzky <michael@××××××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Time-lock USB stick
Date: Wed, 20 Mar 2013 04:23:52
Message-Id: 514939A9.3030204@orlitzky.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Time-lock USB stick by Michael Mol
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4 On 03/19/2013 11:28 PM, Michael Mol wrote:
5 >
6 > Not so much. The idea would be that you could power cycle the
7 > device to get access to it again. The device would be read for the
8 > keys at system bootup, but then would shut itself off after a few
9 > minutes to prevent the keys from being read from disk. (There's
10 > still the risk of them being read from the memory of the process
11 > using them, but that's slightly more difficult, and security is all
12 > about raising the bar.)
13 >
14
15 Eject the USB drive after five minutes? This raises the bar
16 significantly, to "has tried to send the 'close CD tray' command to a
17 USB stick before."
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Replies

Subject Author
Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Time-lock USB stick Michael Mol <mikemol@×××××.com>
Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Time-lock USB stick "J. Roeleveld" <joost@××××××××.org>