[advocacy-discuss] OpenSolaris project: Ironkey

[Ben Rockwood]

S. Hakim Hamdani [ML] wrote:
> I've talked to one of the guys at Ironkey. They say they have no
> support planned for Solaris and haven't had much interest from "our"
> userbase either. I did ask them how these devices are actually handled
> by linux once initialised on win32 (after all we're talking about a usb
> stick with encryption on it, so the question is how to unlock it in
> terms of required software), but unfortunately they gave no answer to
> that.
>
>   
>> Most drivers don't rise to the level of work for a separate project,
>> but get handled under existing work such as the Drivers or Laptop
>> community.
>>     


An alternative might be to create a project to use the tools we have to
create encrypted USB sticks.  A CLI and GUI wrapper perhaps.

IronKey's definately have g33k sh33k, but they beyond the kool "self
destruct" mechanism they seem a little overboard.

benr.