[Cryptography] Kindle as crypto hardware

Theodore Ts'o tytso at mit.edu
Wed Dec 4 09:50:09 EST 2013


On Tue, Dec 03, 2013 at 11:39:27PM -0500, Phillip Hallam-Baker wrote:
> What I really want from a crypto key management device is that it be
> 
> * Small and light
> * Have processor and display capabilities
> * Be possible to control the operating system build completely
> * Be cheap enough to be a burner machine
> 
> Which is how I started thinking about the Kindle. It is pretty much ideal
> in every respect, at least after it is jailbroken.
> 
> And very unlikely that anyone has backdoored the existing stocks.

Why not use an Arduino?

				- Ted


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