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More importantly, end-to-end encryption means that your desktop/laptop/tablet/phone/TI-83 is doing the crypto, especially signatures. On a somewhat related not
by scrupulusalbion 11y ago
More importantly, end-to-end encryption means that your desktop/laptop/tablet/phone/TI-83 is doing the crypto, especially signatures.
On a somewhat related note, I remember reading some documentation on a one-time password scheme, which I can't find anymore. It briefly mentioned something about using DES calculators to handle crypto signatures (for what reason i cannot remember). For our purposes, a PGP/GPG hand-held device would be neat, though perhaps cumbersome to actually user.
- nyan4 11y ago> phone/TI-83 is doing the crypto Phone? Can we remotely trust nowadays smartphones not to have a number of backdoors?
- scrupulusalbion 11y agoI don't think that phones are secure, but people do use them for things like 2-factor authentication. I suppose that it is the form-factor that is more relevant, since most phones are smaller than a TI-83, so much so that people are willing to carry them around everywhere. Ultimately, what I envision would be a cross between a Blackberry (size, QWERTY keyboard) and the TI-83 (focus on being a simpler, lower-end computer). Heck, one may as well give it a unix-like OS and leave out wireless communications and sophisticated graphics. I think this is feasible, but the market would be quite small.