From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3E79A198005 for ; Wed, 20 Mar 2013 08:02:01 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id AFE12E0639; Wed, 20 Mar 2013 08:01:49 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mta-1.ms.rz.rwth-aachen.de (mta-1.ms.rz.rwth-aachen.de [134.130.7.72]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 46D9FE05ED for ; Wed, 20 Mar 2013 08:01:48 +0000 (UTC) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-version: 1.0 Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Content-disposition: inline Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; DelSp=Yes; Format=Flowed Received: from mx-out-1.rwth-aachen.de ([134.130.5.186]) by mta-1.ms.rz.RWTH-Aachen.de (Sun Java(tm) System Messaging Server 6.3-7.04 (built Sep 26 2008)) with ESMTP id <0MJY000GI8YZUO10@mta-1.ms.rz.RWTH-Aachen.de> for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Wed, 20 Mar 2013 09:01:47 +0100 (CET) X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.84,876,1355094000"; d="scan'208";a="214934045" Received: from relay-2.ms.rz.rwth-aachen.de (HELO relay.rwth-aachen.de) ([134.130.7.75]) by mx-1.rz.rwth-aachen.de with ESMTP; Wed, 20 Mar 2013 09:01:47 +0100 Received: from numa-i.igpm.rwth-aachen.de (numa-i.igpm.rwth-aachen.de [134.130.161.252]) by relay.rwth-aachen.de (8.14.4+Sun/8.13.8/1) with ESMTP id r2K81k8q004982 for ; Wed, 20 Mar 2013 09:01:46 +0100 (CET) Received: from numa-i (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by numa-i.igpm.rwth-aachen.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id ED1FAA09 for ; Wed, 20 Mar 2013 09:01:47 +0100 (CET) Date: Wed, 20 Mar 2013 09:01:47 +0100 From: Helmut Jarausch Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Time-lock USB stick To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org References: <514925C3.8020900@gmail.com> In-reply-to: <514925C3.8020900@gmail.com> X-Mailer: Balsa 2.5.0a-5-g1cdd9c6 Message-id: <1363766507.1382.0@numa-i> X-Archives-Salt: 4cb2a708-4f5d-42c7-b927-92151fc7107f X-Archives-Hash: 1cd534b9506ad000ebc6aa5254583fcf 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.