On Sun, Dec 26, 2004 at 11:38:16PM -0500, William Ballard wrote: > On Sun, Dec 26, 2004 at 11:19:13PM -0500, Douglas Ward wrote: > > If you just want something for carrying encrypted passwords, get an older > > model Palm from eBay; many of the +4 year old models are > > $30 and less. > > It's useless to carry around encrypted data when the private key is also > on the device. You'd need to store the private key on a seperate > device, which gets to be a pain. You can get a port of GnuPG for the > PocketPC.
http://www.reflexreaders.com/Products/e-gate/e-gate.html http://www.reflexreaders.com/Products/e-gate/e-gate_Connection/e-gate_connection.html http://www.scmegastore.com/st_prod.html?p_prodid=115&p_catid=&sid=3TZJ680-y9qQAzz-58104234528.e8 > What would be slick would be: store a private key that a server knows > about on the device. Have always-on connectivity. Use the private key > to securely download to memory the private key that unencrypts the data > on the device. Make sure memory is securely wiped when done. -- Eugen* Leitl <a href="http://leitl.org">leitl</a> ______________________________________________________________ ICBM: 48.07078, 11.61144 http://www.leitl.org 8B29F6BE: 099D 78BA 2FD3 B014 B08A 7779 75B0 2443 8B29 F6BE http://moleculardevices.org http://nanomachines.net
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