Agreed. Could be wireless or nfc. The file format won't help much if there are multiple ways it might (or might not) be transfered ------- Stephen [kiwin] Palm Ph.D. W: http://www.kiwin.com Senior Technical Director T: +1-949-926-PALM Broadcom - Broadband Communications Group
----- Original Message ----- From: Joel jaeggli [mailto:joe...@bogus.com] Sent: Monday, November 14, 2011 08:25 PM To: Stephen [kiwin] Palm Cc: 'to...@isi.edu' <to...@isi.edu>; 'm...@sandelman.ca' <m...@sandelman.ca>; 'homenet@ietf.org' <homenet@ietf.org> Subject: Re: [homenet] secret sharing among devices plugging things into things seems like a rather short-sightt requirement for a relationship. joel On 11/15/11 12:13 , Stephen [kiwin] Palm wrote: > My phone cannot mount usb devices. Have nio interest to remove the sdcard > ------- > Stephen [kiwin] Palm Ph.D. W: http://www.kiwin.com > Senior Technical Director T: +1-949-926-PALM > Broadcom - Broadband Communications Group > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Joe Touch [mailto:to...@isi.edu] > Sent: Monday, November 14, 2011 07:44 PM > To: Michael Richardson <m...@sandelman.ca> > Cc: homenet <homenet@ietf.org> > Subject: Re: [homenet] secret sharing among devices > > > > On 11/14/2011 7:23 PM, Michael Richardson wrote: >>>>>>> "Joe" == Joe Touch<to...@isi.edu> writes: >> >> There have been various discussion in PHL about spreading a secret >> among >> >> devices so they can authenticate each other. >> >> >> >> A super cool idea is a specifically formatted file on a USB drive, >> >> inserted into each system in turn. While we might be pretty sure >> >> the USB drive (and file system and connector, etc.) is out of >> scope, the >> >> format for that secret file might be well in scope >> >> Joe> Doesn't that assume the device has a USB connector and can >> Joe> mount a stick as a drive? While that's common on PCs, it's not >> Joe> on home router boxes AFAICT. Many have no USB at all. >> >> 1) Joe, "the USB drive is out of scope". >> What matters is that you have some method to get the file into the >> device. How is less important. > > Agreed. That was my primary point. > >> 2) a USB port is increasing common on home routers, it's where you plug >> the printer in, or the 16G key or 1TB disk, as the home router >> provides NAS as well. > > Verizon doesn't include USB ports on their routers. YMMV, but Verizon is > a fairly large home network provider. > > Joe > _______________________________________________ > homenet mailing list > homenet@ietf.org > https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/homenet > > > _______________________________________________ > homenet mailing list > homenet@ietf.org > https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/homenet > _______________________________________________ homenet mailing list homenet@ietf.org https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/homenet
