On 06/08/14 16:24, Robert J. Hansen wrote:
I do not get your point here. My proposal is to operate the keyring
from a USB stick. What is the difference with operating it from a
smart card?
Exactly what I said. USB is completely broken as far as security goes.
A USB device cannot be made
Does the recent news about vulnerability of usb devices to attacks such as
described in 'badusb' [*] mean that the usb reader into which the gnupg smart
card is inserted is also vulnerable to exploits ?
Sure. But the *kind* of exploits are different.
If not, what is the essential difference
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Hi Philip,
Does the recent news about vulnerability of usb devices to attacks such as
described in 'badusb' [http://srlabs.de/badusb/] mean that the usb reader
into which the gnupg smart card is inserted is also vulnerable to
exploits?
