[Cryptography] Understanding state can be important.

[Peter Gutmann]

Henry Baker <hbaker1 at pipeline.com> writes:

>I'd be happy with a *true* "USB condom"; one that MITM'd the USB port and
>made damn sure that a passive memory device acted like a *single* *passive*
>memory device, and not a keyboard/mouse/whatever; it would also watch out for
>any changes in its VID/PID.

Already exists (at least in prototype form), one was described at Kiwicon this
year, "Fear and Loathing on your Desk: BadUSB, and what you should do about
it" by Robert Fisk.  Another one is in development by an embedded device
engineer, but hasn't been publicly announced yet.

Peter.