USB flash drives look like scsi disks to Linux. I have a 128MB unit partitions into two 64MB filesystems, one is vfat and one is ext3, and have my private key stored onthe ext3 partiton.
It's also burned onto CD and on a couple floppy disks I have stored at home. --[Lance] Joseph Mack NA3T wrote: > I was thinking of getting a USB keychain flashcard to store (among other > things) my private key(s). However ssh requires that your private key be > 400. I assume the USB keychains are vfat, in which case you can only set > the permissions to 444, and ssh won't accep the private key (tested on a > vfat floppy). > > Presumably I could put an ext3 file system on there, but then I won't be > able to use the device to transfer files to a windows machine (which > admittedly I don't do a whole lot, but would be useful to be able to do). > > I understand that you're not supposed to reformat these devices a whole > lot, and that you should use cramfs if you're going to reformat them. > > Do people store their private keys on these USB keychains? > > Can someone straighten me out? > > Thanks Joe > -- Carolina Spirit Quest http://www.carolinaspiritquest.org/ Celebrate The Circle http://www.celebratethecircle.org/ My LiveJournal http://www.livejournal.com/users/labrown/ GPG Fingerprint: 409B A409 A38D 92BF 15D9 6EEE 9A82 F2AC 69AC 07B9 -- TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/ TriLUG PGP Keyring : http://trilug.org/~chrish/trilug.asc
