Re: Java iButton from Dallas Semiconductor

David Honig (honig@alum.mit.edu)
Thu, 09 Apr 1998 10:02:41 -0700

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At 11:58 AM 4/7/98 -0500, William H. Geiger III wrote:
>
>Awhile back I had proposed to the list a crypto dongle. My proposal
>follows pretty much what is now an I-Button but the I-Button is missing
>one key ingredient: A wipe switch. I consider this crucial to any such
>device that there be a mechanism to completely wipe all data stored in
>memory.

A mechanical or electrical destructor would work. If you pierce
the can, the data is toast, by design. If you discharge a large HV
capacitor through
the button, that would probably suffice.

Cheers

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