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From: Helmut Jarausch <jarausch@igpm.rwth-aachen.de>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Time-lock USB stick
Date: Wed, 20 Mar 2013 09:01:47 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1363766507.1382.0@numa-i> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <514925C3.8020900@gmail.com>

On 03/20/2013 03:58:11 AM, Michael Mol wrote:
> Does anybody know of time lock flash drives?
> 
> The scenario I'm looking at is to have a drive that's only accessible
> for a certain amount of time after being powered on. It would hold
> crypto keys in a server context.
> 

You might use encfs. It has an option (-i idle[minutes]) which makes an  
encrypted
directory unaccessible after some minutes of idling unless one  
re-enters the key.

Helmut.



  parent reply	other threads:[~2013-03-20  8:02 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-03-20  2:58 [gentoo-user] [OT] Time-lock USB stick Michael Mol
2013-03-20  3:18 ` William Kenworthy
2013-03-20  3:28   ` Michael Mol
2013-03-20  4:23     ` Michael Orlitzky
2013-03-20  4:33       ` Michael Mol
2013-03-20  4:40       ` J. Roeleveld
2013-03-20  4:47         ` J. Roeleveld
2013-03-20  8:01 ` Helmut Jarausch [this message]
2013-03-20  8:47 ` Michael Hampicke
2013-03-20 14:15   ` Michael Mol
2013-03-21 21:30     ` Kevin Chadwick

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