Re: [Arm-netbook] Anelok (hardware encrypted flash drive idea with gpl3 license)

2017-09-21 Thread Alexander Ross
this guy is working on Anelok, a little passwords/keys/etc storage that has a little screen and few buttons: http://downloads.qi-hardware.com/people/werner/anelok/tmp/mk3-running/on-accounts.jpg mailing list for history of his work on it: Photos: http://lists.en.qi-hardware.com/pipermail/discuss

Re: [Arm-netbook] Signet (hardware encrypted flash drive idea with gpl3 license)

2017-09-21 Thread Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
--- crowd-funded eco-conscious hardware: https://www.crowdsupply.com/eoma68 On Thu, Sep 21, 2017 at 5:50 PM, Alexander Ross wrote: > heres there article about smartcards and nitrokey > https://www.devever.net/~hl/smartcards > > thoughts? :/ pretty interesting. says it all...

Re: [Arm-netbook] Signet (hardware encrypted flash drive idea with gpl3 license)

2017-09-21 Thread Alexander Ross
heres there article about smartcards and nitrokey https://www.devever.net/~hl/smartcards thoughts? :/ ___ arm-netbook mailing list arm-netbook@lists.phcomp.co.uk http://lists.phcomp.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/arm-netbook Send large attachments to arm-netb..

Re: [Arm-netbook] Signet (hardware encrypted flash drive idea with gpl3 license)

2017-09-21 Thread Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
https://www.crowdsupply.com/third-pin/pastilda same sort of thing. basically they use an STM32F4 (both of them). btw when you next speak to them, mention libopencm3 and the fact that i use the STM32F072... there is *absolutely no need* for proprietary firmware-flashing tools with the STM32F range

Re: [Arm-netbook] Signet (hardware encrypted flash drive idea with gpl3 license)

2017-09-21 Thread Alexander Ross
talking of crypto usb sticks, theres a new one crowdfunding: https://www.crowdsupply.com/nth-dimension/signet the dev has been helpful/responsive to my questions too. the bootloader thing is non-free but that is only used in the factory and for updates it uses its own upgrade software in the firm

Re: [Arm-netbook] hardware encrypted flash drive idea with gpl3 license

2017-09-21 Thread Tor, the Marqueteur
On 09/21/2017 01:10 AM, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote: ...snip... > baiscally what i'm saying, with this story is: the tricky part will > not be the software at all: the tricky bit will be getting a processor > into a tamper-resistant, tamper-detecting box. > I can't vouch for them, but IST

Re: [Arm-netbook] hardware encrypted flash drive idea with gpl3 license

2017-09-21 Thread Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
On Thu, Sep 21, 2017 at 11:16 AM, Philip Hands wrote: > Most of the time, what you're calling hardware is liable to just be > software running on a different processor, perhaps in a box that has > been glued shut such that it's less convenient for bugs to be found, > fixed and patched. glued sh

Re: [Arm-netbook] hardware encrypted flash drive idea with gpl3 license

2017-09-21 Thread Philip Hands
zap writes: ... > also, hardware encryption is far stronger than software encryption. Faster (potentially), maybe less open to side-channel attacks (if properly designed), but I see no reason that the same algorithm implemented in silicon would be any "stronger" than if it were in software. Mos