[Cryptography] USB hardware token for $2??
Kent Borg
kentborg at borg.org
Thu Dec 22 18:38:05 EST 2016
On 12/22/2016 03:58 PM, Ron Garret wrote:
> https://sc4.us/hsm/
That device is still gnawing at me! It seems so useful, or at least like
it should be so useful. But it has me suffering over endpoint security.
It could secure sensitive information for me. The display looks so
valuable to get information out, but what about getting information in?
How does it know I am me?
A perennial question resurfaces: what is the smallest little computer
device with a slightly, kinda reasonably usable keyboard?
For a password safe, for portable purposes, I have an Android phone that
I have never allowed to see a SIM and be a phone, nor even be on the
internet. But oh, horrors, it is terrible for entering encryption keys!
Not too bad for a password (the two are different: passwords can be
short, encryption keys/passphrases need to be crazy long! They are very
different...)
I can type a practiced, pretty-mostly nasty-long passphrase on a real
keyboard, repeatedly during the course of the day, with little effort.
But how secure is that? I use decent hygiene on that device, but it is
not sterile. I would like something I *can* keep sterile, small enough
to have on me, but with far more usable passphrase entry than a cheap
Android phone I keep incommunicado.
Suggestions?
-kb
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