[BRLTTY] What shall we do with bluetooth passkeys?

[Jan Buchal]

>>>>> "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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