On Tue, 10 Sep 2013 15:18, ndk.cla...@gmail.com said: >> way to connect about anything to a computer. Emulated keyboard which >> sends ANSI control codes to take over your box without you noticing? > Uh? "Whithout you noticing"? For sure you know more than me, but to my > knowledge an USB keyboard only sends key scan-codes (not ANSI sequences, > that's why you need to set the keyboard language). And if you have an
And that key strokes may for example represent "<Alt-F2> ping -c1 SOMEHOST; exit" and the attacker will know the time you inserted the USB stick. Now start doing some real thing. > Pete proposed to use an USB-to-Serial interface to avoid attacks against > the USB stack on the PC. Why should an AVR be used to implement a flash > device? Because you wrote the USB stack and thus it is trustworthy. Implementing a backdoor in the AVR proper to detect the use of such a free software USB stack and subvert it would be much harder than to implement something into a closed source USB stack. Salam-Shalom, Werner -- Die Gedanken sind frei. Ausnahmen regelt ein Bundesgesetz. _______________________________________________ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users
