[BRLTTY] What shall we do with bluetooth passkeys?
Jan Buchal
buchal at brailcom.org
Fri Nov 17 12:20:16 EST 2006
>>>>> "JW" == Jason White <jasonw at ariel.its.unimelb.edu.au> writes:
JW> On Thu, Nov 16, 2006 at 07:29:09AM -0500, Dave Mielke wrote:
>> second is if it's sufficiently secure for a user to put his PIN
>> in a general data file like brltty.conf or if it's ultimately
>> better to just let Bluetooth hide it away somewhere and somehow.
JW> Perhaps it would be better for a parameter in brltty.conf to
JW> specify the name of the file where the pin is stored. That file
JW> could then be owned by root with permissions 600, for example.
JW> Alternatively, just establish a standard name/location for the
JW> pin file, configurable at compile-time.
JW> Of course, anybody who gains root access will be able to read
JW> the pin, but this is inevitable in that the information cannot
JW> be encrypted (the application needs the original value), and it
JW> has to be stored somewhere.
But what with live CD? If you will want use braille device which has
bluetooth only?
Best.
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Jan Buchal
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