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 1D8C9198005 for ; Wed, 20 Mar 2013 08:47:59 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 7732FE06C3; Wed, 20 Mar 2013 08:47:50 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mx1.hadt.biz (sil.hadt.biz [5.9.16.100]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AECDH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 37E98E06BA for ; Wed, 20 Mar 2013 08:47:49 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [192.168.255.100] (p5B34369F.dip.t-dialin.net [91.52.54.159]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mx1.hadt.biz (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id A11B840060 for ; Wed, 20 Mar 2013 09:47:47 +0100 (CET) Message-ID: <514977B2.4030408@hadt.biz> Date: Wed, 20 Mar 2013 09:47:46 +0100 From: Michael Hampicke User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130307 Thunderbird/17.0.4 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 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Time-lock USB stick References: <514925C3.8020900@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <514925C3.8020900@gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 0e86d4b7-d566-437a-b5d0-4c3cf53c22bc X-Archives-Hash: bbeb7e5be5bda2f4aebb4f917197a988 Am 20.03.2013 03:58, schrieb Michael Mol: > 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. > I am no expert on embedded systems, but couldn't you achieve something like this by using a small dev board with like an Atmel controller? Which you then program to act like an USB stick?