security key ?

[LCHIEN]

Any of you use the RSA-type security key generators for system access?

Thats the little cockroach sized dongles that have a six digit display and show a new pseudo-random 6-digit number every minute. The number sequence is appears random but matches a sequence programmed in the net server so it can calulate at any minute what number you should have showing. This along with a user password gives a tight physical security key that is ever changing so it can't easily be broken. Someone can't just steal your password. Or the dongle. They have to have both.

I actually have two, for different customer networks I have to access.

Totday, I logged in and looked at my dongle and it read 066 666.
Mark of the devil at work???

Another thing I figure I can do with these is play poker. Use the best five numerals to make you hand...
every minute you get a new hand on each dongle.
Today's rare hand would be a 5 of a kind...

[milanuk]

Yep, we use the Safeword Silver from Secure Computing... every employee with computer access has one along with their prox card ID. Hit the button, generates a new six digit alphanumeric code which in combination with a four digit PIN gives a unique password every time you log in.

Pretty fancy rendition of the old-fashioned one-time-password concept.

[newood2]

Had one of those little gizmo for company server access going back 6-years ago when I worked for a communication company. Well the company's name was a derivative of Lucifer, it's logo was a red(blood) circle and it's address was 666 ???? Ave.
Who can guess the company.
Clue: It went to Hades via France

[JR]

Who can guess the company.

My best customer!

[poolhound]

I used them for years when in the corp. world. They are great until you are on the road and the battery dies!!! You can now get soft versions which also mean they are always in the same place as your computer.

[smorris]

We are getting ready to spend about $500K to deploy those globally. They are pretty secure but as most things in the field, they won't hold up to what I refer to as "rubber hose cryptanalysis".