On Thu, 22 Aug 2002 21:46, Sam Clegg wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 25, 2002 at 10:23:09AM -0700, David Caldwell wrote:
> > Sounds like what you really want is a way to take exclusive access to the
> > camera device somehow. Can you exclusively open the device and prevent
> > others from opening it too? I suppose even that would have a timing
> > splinter: Someone could take exclusive control before you got a chance...
>
> I would like to see someting like this for hotpluggable storage as well.
>
> If I want to keep private data (private keys etc) on a USB keyring I
> would like to be sure that nobody else can mount it before me.
>
> Perhaps the hotplug system could implement some kind of method for a
> user to say "any device plugged in the next 1 minute is mine". Clearly
> this is vulnerable to DoS by others but this is far better than others
> being able to mount your disks/read your photos.
Ivo is apparently taking over crypto-api and hopefully he'll have it in sarge
soon. That should solve your problem, just encrypt the device and only the
user with the password can get access.
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