iButton Crypto (Slightly off topic)

[Pete.Chown@skygate.co.uk]

Werner Koch wrote:

> The secret key has to be transferred to your desktop box anyway
> because the iButton is not fast enough to do the crypto operations.

Presumably you could do the public key bit on the iButton, thereby
making it more difficult for a long term key to be compromised?

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