One possible solution is to store the private key on a USB pen drive and take it with you when you leave your desktop.
-----Original Message----- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of David Boyes Sent: Wednesday, March 28, 2007 12:37 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Protecting SSH key on Windows desktop > At present, the best that I can think of is to put > it on a USB thumb drive which I then only attach to the Windows desktop > when I need to ssh/scp/sftp to Linux. Is there an easier way which is > still secure? That's the best smart simple way. Or get a two-factor token system and implement that on top of the ssh authentication, so it doesn't matter as much if someone steals part of the authenticator, but that's a lot harder to do. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
