Best practices/HOWTO for key storage in small office/home office setting?

[Ben Laurie]

Enzo Michelangeli wrote:
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Bill Stewart" <bill.stewart at pobox.com>
> To: "Conspiracy" <>
> Sent: Wednesday, October 03, 2001 12:41 AM
> Subject: Re: Best practices/HOWTO for key storage in small office/home
> office setting?
> 
> > At 07:23 PM 10/02/2001 +0300, Sampo Syreeni wrote:
> > >Or integrate some computing power into those IBM thingies, and use
> > >remotely keyed encryption. Enough power is available through USB so that
> > >you don't have to end up with battery power.
> >
> > Sounds like you're starting to reinvent the I-Button.
> > (Dallas semiconductor's product - uses a small computer chip
> > and an infrared link attached to a watch battery.)
> 
> Infrared link? As far as I know, the primary interface is the so-called
> 1-Wire, that uses the power lines also for I/O.

It is, in fact, the only interface. As you say, the I/O lines are used
for power (or the power lines are used for I/O, depending how you look
at it). Which I think is really cute. The other highly cute thing is
that you can put any number of iButtons on the same 1-wire interface in
any topology and it still works (I can give a summary of how this works,
if people care).

Note that 1-wire is really 2, of course, but since the other is ground,
you typically don't have to wire it, if you don't want to.

Cheers,

Ben.

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