On 8/18/2011 1:29, Invisible wrote:
>> Which device was this? I could use something to stick my passwords on.
> ...the irony... it burns...

What's ironic about wanting to put passwords or private keys on an encrypted 
portable medium?

> OK, for anyone else wanting to duplicate my results:

Thank you!

> Not necessarily. I'm pretty sure you can buy off-the-shelf components that
> run crypto primitives like AES.

I was thinking it would likely be a core, not a component as such.

> (Also, doesn't the USB protocol require a processor core already? In which
> case, all you have to add is firmware for performing AES.)

That was my point, yes. :-)

> Fundamentally though, it doesn't matter whether AES is in special hardware
> or in firmware. The point is, the encryption is transparent to the host PC.

Right.

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