[guardian-dev] Using NFC for two-factor locking

[devrandom]

These look pretty nice!  Will read up.

On 11-12-16 06:07 AM, Jason wrote:
> devrandom,
> 
> On Thu, Dec 15, 2011 at 10:15:02AM -0800, devrandom wrote:
>> I was thinking, instead of just using a password to secure crypto keys /
>> SQLCipher DBs, we could also use an NFC tag as a second password
>> component.
> 
> I've been thinking through the same thing.  I was looking at the
> basiccard [1].  It has support for RFID (on the NFC freq) [2](PDF), and the
> openpgp smartcard standard [3].  The RFID ones run between 6 and 9 euros
> each in single quantities.
> 
> I don't remember if the RFID is linked to the smartcard chip, or if it
> is just a tag.  I can't find it right now, but I'm pretty sure it's more
> than a tag.
> 
> The debian wiki page has a lot of good info about smartcards in general
> [4].  It appears libccid, opensc, and libnfc could lay the groundwork to
> make it work.
> 
> hth,
> 
> Jason.
> 
> [1] http://www.basiccard.com/
> [2] http://209.68.36.204/downloads/Flyerzc75erfid.pdf
> [3] http://wiki.debian.org/Smartcards/OpenPGP


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