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Re: [PLUG] more thoughts on usb flash drives
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speaking of those usb drives, i have one of those
compact flash reader that attaches to usb.
Now i also built myself a serial pushbutton
with LED lights indicator and used thte button
to trigger launch a perl program (i've copied
the wiring diagram from the internet). Teh perl
program gobbles whatever jpg files are in the
card. The result is i have a headless server
which i can load my digital camera card
into. pictures are served by ftp, samba
and web.
thought i'd like to share that. I'd have
worked on a lcd display on the server too if
i had enough time...
e pike
On Sun, 18 Jan 2004 16:24:56 -0500
sean finney <seanius@seanius.net> wrote:
> hey guys,
>
> more on the topic of flash drives... i'm trying to think of the
> best uses for this thing. here's a list of things that i'd like this
> to do:
>
> - persistent /home dir (with gpg keys, ssh keys, rc files, et c.)
> - frequently used programs for various os's (putty/pscp for windows, for
> example), maybe other random files i want to have available
> - a minimal bootstrapped linux install
>
> now, i'd like to have the important stuff somehow cryptographically
> protected. does anyone have experience with encrypted home dirs?
>
> i've done some reading on cfs, which seems a bit of a heavyweight
> for what i want (requiring a cfs server/client on each machine), though
> cfs does seem somewhat portable to other unix-like systems.
>
> there's also storing the filesystem as an encrypted image file, but that
> might require a crypto-enabled kernel (depending on how it was
> encrypted),
> and i don't know what kind of support loop-device mounting would get on
> other unix-like os's (i don't care about windows, but it'd be nice to
> be able to get to it on *BSD's for example).
>
> can anyone else think of other options for that?
>
> as for the misc files i'd like to get to, i'm assuming that'd be a fat32
> partition, because i'd like to be able to get to that from within
> windows *
> and os x.
>
> and then i figure take the rest of the space and make it an ext2
> partition and bootstrap everything i can into it. i'd probably still
> need a boot disk for most bioses (or access to the bootloader cmdline),
> but it'd be nice to have a mini distro in there for most of my
> rescue/hacking needs.
>
> thoughts and ideas welcome...
>
>
> thanks,
> sean
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