[Cryptography] You can't trust any of your hardware

Dave Horsfall dave at horsfall.org
Mon Aug 4 01:55:12 EDT 2014


On Sun, 3 Aug 2014, Doron Shikmoni wrote:

> The U3 <<expletive removed>> stick variety created by a few USB stick 
> vendors a few years back (e.g. the Sandisk Cruzer Micro), would present 
> a CD drive with executable code, in addition to the mass storage device, 
> in order to have autorun kicked off on Windows (so that the U3 
> "launchpad" would launch automatically and transparently...).

Would this be the same one that could use crypto as well?  I never did 
investigate because it wanted a Windoze box, but Sandisk rings a bell.

-- Dave


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