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USB armory – The open source flash-drive-sized computer by WithSecure Foundry

by Nokinside on 6/3/23, 11:15 AM with 17 comments

  • by pca006132 on 6/3/23, 1:50 PM

    Is there any hardware tamper resistant features that can prevent third-party from getting the secrets? Like things mentioned here: https://www.design-reuse.com/articles/51750/why-hardware-roo...
  • by jonathankoren on 6/3/23, 4:55 PM

    Can we get a real write up about this rather than a lazy link to GitHub, that’s not even to documentation, but rather just a list of repos? As it is, it’s completely unclear what this is or why I should care.
  • by gnabgib on 6/3/23, 5:44 PM

    Dupe of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36174359 (also posted by Nokinside??) since that actually has content, it seems like the better posting/source.
  • by scott00 on 6/3/23, 3:30 PM

    I don't get the security benefits of this device over any other ARM computer. It seems like a complicated enough device you'd need to run full blown linux on it, and it would communicate over BLE and USB. Are those stacks much more secure than the TCP or UDP stacks for some reason? You'd have the benefit of nobody opening random email attachments or visiting sketchy websites, but the same would be true of any device treated like an appliance or server.
  • by Nokinside on 6/3/23, 11:16 AM

  • by Quequau on 6/3/23, 11:19 AM

    Sorta weird to see this thing back in the news after so long. Seems like they've gone through a revision and have been sold to a larger company since the last time I looked.
  • by DethNinja on 6/3/23, 6:21 PM

    What is the use case? I’m guessing just to store secrets but then why not just use a HSM or even yubikey.
  • by pjmlp on 6/3/23, 5:15 PM

    One of production quality examples of using Go for systems programming.
  • by ParadisoShlee on 6/3/23, 2:43 PM

    Did this project get bought our from f-secure? or is this a rebranding?