< While thinking about the subject of secure consoles, etc., I thought
< of hardware ID codes : is anyone familiar with any schemes whereby
< a keyboard or other peripheral has a unique code which it communicates
< to a server, and without which the server will not accept input?
<
< Sort of like a pre-smartcard security technology.
<
< I've never seen or heard of this, I was just wondering if it existed
< in any shape or form.
<
sounds like a dongle... goes on the serial/printer port while you're
running the software. The software would check and see if the correct dongle
was there and wouldn't run without it.
HPUX had something like that - when installing software that needed
some codes, there was a 'dongle' like thing that went between the keyboard
and machine HP called it a 'module'.
The mouse went thru the keyboard on these machines.
Sean.
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