Timeline for SSH using keys in external storage - permissions?
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| Jan 12, 2013 at 17:19 | comment | added | Luis Machuca | Luckily I'm not too concerned with HW backdoors (yet?). Laptops are too finicky for dongle-backdooring and at that point the attacker is close to me enough that on a practical level xkcd.com/538 is more feasible. | |
| Jan 12, 2013 at 17:12 | vote | accept | Luis Machuca | ||
| Jan 12, 2013 at 0:18 | comment | added | Gilles 'SO- stop being evil' | @LuisMachuca If you're the only user of that operating system on that computer, you're probably fine (while hardware backdoors are possible in theory, they are not (yet?) common in the wild). But if there are other users using the same operating system (even if they aren't logged in at the same time as you), they can easily read your keys. | |
| Jan 12, 2013 at 0:14 | comment | added | Luis Machuca |
Good point about bindfsing it at a different location, I'll test it. And a better point about the security. While I'm the sole user of the distro, I'm not the sole user of the physical computer.
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| Jan 12, 2013 at 0:04 | history | answered | Gilles 'SO- stop being evil' | CC BY-SA 3.0 |