Re: Re: [Cryptography] Dumb idea: open-source hardware USB key for crypto

On Sat, Jan 11, 2014 at 02:35:39AM -0500, grarpamp wrote:

On Fri, Jan 10, 2014 at 5:53 PM, Bill Cox wrote:

...

I've been noodling the idea of a USB stick designed in a way that we can trust the crypto that goes on there. It's a hard problem, but there seems to be some guidelines that could help:

as hinted earlier in the pcp/pbp discussion, i'm working on such a beast: https://www.ctrlc.hu/~stef/PITCHFORK.pdf

...

Anyway, it's just a fun idea. I'd love to have such a device in my pocket. There's a lot of applications I can think of that could benefit from it, from electronic voting to microtransactions.

PITCHFORK will allow you to develop your own extensions, so indeed i expect a lot of experiments and innovation if this gets off. currently some of my code has licensing problems and needs to be reimplemented before publication :/

Many of these open hardware ideas come down to the fab level...

indeed, there's a lot of trust in things we have limited resources to validate. turtles all the way down. -- pgp: https://www.ctrlc.hu/~stef/stef.gpg pgp fp: FD52 DABD 5224 7F9C 63C6 3C12 FC97 D29F CA05 57EF otr fp: https://www.ctrlc.hu/~stef/otr.txt