Re: A (not) new security idea

From: Jude (fedora_at_wastedtimes.net)
Date: 10/14/04

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Date: Thu, 14 Oct 2004 04:46:43 +0100

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    On Wednesday 13 October 2004 20:36, Brian Fahrlander wrote:

    > Keyfobs. These little USB droplets of cyberspace. How about we, as
    > one of the largest collections of Linux people out there, standardize
    > some software to fit into PAM to do this:
    >
    > 1. Upon insertion, ask for the passphrase a'la local-agent.
    >
    > 2. When validated, use these credentials for everything.
    >
    > Sounds like a simple idea, but for some reason the powers that be
    > can't seem to 'get off the pot' and placate hundreds of vendors to
    > define a standard. Standards are what we're about. Let's make our
    > own.

    As a starting point, you might want to look at pam_usb, "a PAM module that
    enables authentication using a USB storage device through DSA
    private/public keys."

    http://freshmeat.net/projects/pam_usb/

    HTH

    Jude

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