There is Secret! <www.linkesoft.com> with strong encryption for Palm. As you saw on
Isaac, Ian Goldberg has ported SSLeay to Palm and implemented SSH.
Ascii armour is very useful if you use e-mail for the transmission. There are lots of
e-mail software for the Palm. A good and free e-mail program is also on the Isaac web
site.
Another very small platform is the HP200LX. It runs MS-DOS and PGP 2.6. HP will
discontinue the 200LX in a few weeks, so you should get one now. <www.palmtoppaper.com>
A.
On Thu, 9 Sep 1999, Arnold Reinhold wrote:
> At 8:32 PM -0700 9/8/99, Bill Stewart wrote:
> >At 09:23 AM 9/8/99 -0400, Arnold Reinhold wrote:
> >...
> > >Staples stocks the TI-83+ at $92.99. So for under a hundred bucks and
> > >a little time spent in TIBasic programming you can own an
> > >off-the-shelf coding machine using strong encryption, interoperable
> > >with CipherSaber programs on other platforms, in a reasonably
> > >portable and innocent-looking package. And it will still do math.
> >
> >Of course, you can get a low-end Palm Pilot for about $130-150
> >(or cheaper if you buy used from somebody upgrading.)
> >More memory, and you don't have to program in Basic.
>
>
> Are you saying that there are existing encryption programs for the
> Pilot or that there are better languages to program it in? (Basic
> really isn't bad for something like RC4)
>
> I searched around, but didn't much in the way of Pilot strong crypto
> applications. http://www.isaac.cs.berkeley.edu/pilot/ has some tools,
> but doesn't seem to have a complete stand-alone encryption program.
> http://www.klawitter.de/palm/cipher.html uses IDEA to encrypt the
> clipboard, but it's ascii armouring would make it hard to manually
> transmit ciphertext, if I understand what he is doing. Passphrase
> length is limited to 16 characters, which is unfortunate.
>
> Also, I wonder if the lack of a keyboard would make it a pain to
> enter persnickety text like passphrases and ciphertext. Tastes may
> vary on this. The Pilot form factor is a lot better -- the TI
> Graphing calculators are biggish. Anyone know a really small
> calculator or palm top with enough programmability?
