Re: Debian Investigation Report after Server Compromises
On Monday 08 December 2003 18:20, Colin Watson wrote:
> You can go further by requiring physical presentation
> of smartcards or similar in order to use the key, which is less
> convenient but makes a passphrase more or less useless on its own.
Aren't smartcards similar to dongles in some respects? They both have a
guard point in the software that identifies good guys and bad guys. If so,
then given that dongles are reverser bait, won't smartcards meet the same
fate as dongles? They'll become a wall trophy over the mantle of a reverser.
It seems that anyone capable of a stack overflow exploit is also capable of
reversing out a smartcard checkpoint. Please tell me I'm being too negative.
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Mike Mueller
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