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

[Bill Stewart]

At 09:32 AM 10/03/2001 +0100, Ben Laurie wrote:
>Enzo Michelangeli wrote:
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Bill Stewart" <bill.stewart at pobox.com>
> > > 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.


Yes, I spaced on that, must have been thinking of something else :-)  Sorry.
Anyway, to partially redeem my gaffe, the web site for
Dallas Semiconductor who makes the things is www.dalsemi.com ,
and http://dbserv.maxim-ic.com/1-Wire.cfm and
http://para.maxim-ic.com/iButton.htm
are where some of the good data lives.





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