Portable protected storage? http://www.ideaspace.net/users/wkearney/archives/entries/000191.html The Windows OS has the ability to present protected storage resources to software. Try sending encrypted e-mail from within Outlook... wkearney 2003-03-23T13:33:46-05:00 http://www.ideaspace.net/users/wkearney/archives/entries/000191.html en-us Ideas The Windows OS has the ability to present protected storage resources to software. Try sending encrypted e-mail from within Outlook... 2003-03-23T13:33:46-05:00 The Windows OS has the ability to present protected storage resources to software. Try sending encrypted e-mail from within Outlook and you'll see it in action. Here the program requests access to something and the OS stops and prompts the user for permission. This concept is also present for things like ssh-agent.

What I'm wondering is whether anyone has taken the step to integrate a Palm Pilot into this process? Why not have the protected storage reside on the Palm and be accessible via the OS crypto routines? Then provide an output mechanism that sends the stored data back into the OS keyboard input buffer?

My interest here is to put my passwords on the Palm and have them re-enterable without having to read and retype them every time I want to use them. The underlying Windows OS supports handling most of this. Where's an interface to a portable device?

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