Re: iPAQ and USB cryptographic tokens?
Martin Heimes <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.comp.handhelds.linux.intimate |
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| Message-ID | <[email protected]> |
Paul, > We'd like to use USB-connected cryptographic smart tokens with things > like the iPAQ or the Sharp Zaurus. From a brief study of the USB spec, > it looks as if one could easily hack a cable to connect the handheld > to a female "A" connector into which a token could be plugged. The > question is whether the USB driver software under Linux would know > what to do. Has anybody tried this? Is there any hope? USB is not a point-to-point, that is AFAIK the main problem. The ipaq is a USB slave from the hardware side of view, so if your USB crypto token provides the USB host things might work. OTOH if you find a PCMCIA (attention: no cardbus type will work in the ipaq sleeves) or CF USB card you get the required (hardware) USB host function; and you still need a driver for that card. That's all i know about, see http://pcmcia-cs.sourceforge.net/ftp/doc/PCMCIA-HOWTO.html and http://www.linux-usb.org/ greetings Martin [email protected] -- GMX - Die Kommunikationsplattform im Internet. http://www.gmx.net