Re: Palm security
On Tue, 4 Jun 2002, Adam Shostack wrote: > > I find myself storing a pile of vaugely sensitive information on my > palm. Where do I find the competent analysis of this? Ideally, I'd > like to be able to protect things that I move into a "sensitive" area > (passwords), and maybe select items in other places that I want to > encrypt. I don't really want to have to enter a password each time I > look at my schedule and todo lists. > > Someone suggested YAPS > (http://www.palmblvd.com/software/pc/Yaps-2000-11-7-palm-pc.html) are > there others I should look at? > > Adam > > > -- > > > Hi Adam, I've been using Moviancrypt from Certicom: http://www.certicom.com/products/movian/moviancrypt.html PHT -- Peter Hope-Tindall [EMAIL PROTECTED] dataPrivacy Partners Ltd. (416) 410-0240 Vox (416) 410-2820 Fax Privacy by Design (TM)
Re: Palm security
Adam Shostack wrote: > I find myself storing a pile of vaugely sensitive information on my > palm. Where do I find the competent analysis of this? Ideally, I'd > like to be able to protect things that I move into a "sensitive" area > (passwords), and maybe select items in other places that I want to > encrypt. I don't really want to have to enter a password each time I > look at my schedule and todo lists. > > Someone suggested YAPS > (http://www.palmblvd.com/software/pc/Yaps-2000-11-7-palm-pc.html) are > there others I should look at? I use Keyring (http://sourceforge.net/projects/gnukeyring/), though it seems to have moved on some since I last looked... Cheers, Ben. -- http://www.apache-ssl.org/ben.html http://www.thebunker.net/ "There is no limit to what a man can do or how far he can go if he doesn't mind who gets the credit." - Robert Woodruff
Re: Palm security
On Tue, Jun 04, 2002 at 04:58:16PM -0400, Adam Shostack wrote: > I find myself storing a pile of vaugely sensitive information on my > palm. Where do I find the competent analysis of this? Ideally, I'd > like to be able to protect things that I move into a "sensitive" area > (passwords), and maybe select items in other places that I want to > encrypt. I don't really want to have to enter a password each time I > look at my schedule and todo lists. > > Someone suggested YAPS > (http://www.palmblvd.com/software/pc/Yaps-2000-11-7-palm-pc.html) are > there others I should look at? I prefer the Keyring for PalmOS (http://gnukeyring.sourceforge.net). Comes with source code, uses 3DES for encryption (the passphrase is MD5 hashed as far as i remember). Have a look at it. Cheers, Ralf -- Ralf-P. Weinmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> PGP fingerprint: 2048/46C772078ACB58DEF6EBF8030CBF1724
(Fwd) Re: Palm security
I've been using Cryptopad 3 (Memo pad replacement) and like it (uses Eric Young's Blowfish). v4 is available (freeware) http://www.freewarepalm.com/utilities/cryptopad.shtml http://www.palmblvd.com/software/pc/CryptoPad-2000-10-12-palm-pc.html jay On 4 Jun 2002 at 16:58, Adam Shostack wrote: > I find myself storing a pile of vaugely sensitive information on my > palm. Where do I find the competent analysis of this? Ideally, I'd > like to be able to protect things that I move into a "sensitive" area > (passwords), and maybe select items in other places that I want to > encrypt. I don't really want to have to enter a password each time I > look at my schedule and todo lists. > > Someone suggested YAPS > (http://www.palmblvd.com/software/pc/Yaps-2000-11-7-palm-pc.html) are > there others I should look at? > > Adam > > > -- > > > -- > "It is seldom that liberty of any kind is lost all at once." > -Hume > > --- End of forwarded message ---
Re: Palm security
On Tue, 4 Jun 2002 16:58:16 -0400, "Adam Shostack" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > I find myself storing a pile of vaugely sensitive information on my > palm. Where do I find the competent analysis of this? Perhaps this will help.. http://www.atstake.com/research/reports/index.html#pdd_palm_forensics -- contrary [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- http://fastmail.fm - No WWW (Wait-Wait-Wait) required
