On 13/04/16 03:12 AM, Tony Arcieri wrote:
On Tue, Apr 12, 2016 at 7:26 PM, Ron Garret <r...@flownet.com
<mailto:r...@flownet.com>> wrote:
This HSM is much more general-purpose than a U2F token.
Well, that's true, but it's also hundreds of times bigger than a token
in the Yubikey "nano" form factor, which is actually convenient to keep
permanently in the USB slot of a laptop. Your physical design seems
pretty unwieldy for laptops (see also Yubico's keychain designs).
Yubikey "nano" factor tokens like the NEO-n have also supported more
general purposes than a U2F token (e.g. CCID interface, OpenPGP applets,
see also PIV)
I swear I'm not a paid shill for Yubico, but I'm a fan of small
display-free hardware tokens. While a token like what you've built might
provide Maximum Security under pessimistic threat models, its large size
=========================
Who wants to be optimistic with respect to threat models in the current
IT landscape?
Do you?
(I much liked what I glimpsed from the original post.)
- Thierry Moreau
makes it look rather inconvenient to me.
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Tony Arcieri
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