GnuPG in universities

[Pedro Diaz Jimenez]

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Hi,

Unfortunatly a floppy is a somewhat weak medium in my opinion. What I think 
that would we great is that the university provide one of those pretty 
gadgets like dallas' IButton. They are like little metal buttons with some 
memory inside (64KB-256KB IIRC) that can be used to store almost everything 
yo migth want to keep private: keyrings are an obvious example. There are 
even some models more advanced wich provide a crypto-proccesor capable of 
public key (RSA) operations. They are small enough to keep them with you in 
your (physical) keyring and have some anti-intrusion mechanism

Of course they are not unbeatable :my crypto teacher told me some advanced 
methods to obtain the internal state of one of theese toys without even 
forcing it - UV advanced stuff that I couldn't understand fully, but at the 
reach of mayor agencies like NSA. Anyways, If your university doesn't belong 
to the CIA or something I think there are a pretty good   option. And they 
are cheap!: 25$ IIRC each one (simple model, no crypto engine)


just my $0.02

Cheers
Pedro

On Monday 11 June 2001 19:25, Daniel Knapp wrote:
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> Hi,
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> I am pretty new in this mailinglist and in addition, I am still a GNUPG /
> PKE newbie. I read all the statements, from Pedro, David and Dirk and I was
> wondering, if an exported keyring (-exported to Floppy Disk) wouldn`t
> increase the data security? I mean, everyone would still be responsible for
> their keyring, but there would be no need to store them on a public PC.
>
> Greetings
> Daniel
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