Lexar Secure Jumpdrives

[Jason Clinton]

On Tuesday 14 December 2004 11:14, Brian Kelsay wrote:
> That, my friend, was an awesome post.  This may sound like a simple thing
> to you, since you have been dealing with encryption for a while, but have
> you thought of doing a detailed write-up and sample scripts to get a person
> new to encryption started?  That would be a cool thing to post to
> http://www.gnupg.org/(en)/documentation/howtos.html or as a small project
> on freshmeat.  (e.g.  Encrypted Jumpdrive/Pendrive Howto) Just a thought.
> Yes, the attempt to be cross-platform is usually the wrench in the works.

*chuckle* Thanks for the compliment! I'll add that to my list of 
awesome-projects-I'll-get-to-someday-soon. ;)

> I have seen some real small USB fobs that I think only carry an encryption
> key. They are only about a half inch long or just a bit more.  Have you
> seen those and do they work in Linux?  If they work, they might be just the
> thing.  I imagine that if you look at them in Linux, you will find that
> they only contain a fat16 filesystem with 1-8 MB of flash, maybe less.  A
> private key  takes up how much space if it is in a text file or compressed?
>  Not much, maybe a few kb.

Yea, it's just a few KB. Even the simplest storage device would work -- the 
goal should be making it separate from the device on your keychain and very 
easy to _not_ forget. Losing your private key is a very nasty proposition -- 
publishing revocation certificates is _not_ a fun thing.

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