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

[Doron Shikmoni]

On Mon, Aug 4, 2014 at 8:55 AM, Dave Horsfall <dave at horsfall.org> wrote:

> 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.
>

Yes, they did offer crypto there too, iirc.
Though it was a software tool (guess for which OS), not part of that
firmware.

Doron
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