At 07:51 AM 05/02/2000 -0700, Eric Murray wrote:
>Another weak point is, once the unit has done the biometric match and
>unlocked the key, where does the key go? To the PC to be used
>to decrypt the filesystem? Or does the filesystem get decrypted on
>the device? The latter would be less insecure, at the cost of
>performance. Of course the maker could add a $5 3DES chip
>to do the crypto, but that $5 cost (in quantity) winds up adding $25 or 30
>on the retail price.
Matt Blaze did some work a while back on sharing decryption workload
between smartcards and faster computers.
Thanks!
Bill
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