Do these things work?

[xcsler]

Keyscramblers to defend against keyloggers. Seems like everyone should have one of these if they have a lot of coins and they are actually effective. Thoughts?

http://www.qfxsoftware.com/ks-windows/how-it-works.htm

[grue]

Assuming that your virus has full access to other processes, I don't see how this would help. The virus can always

• scan for the key in memory
• hijack the input after it's decrypted (hooking the API that the program uses to receive input)
• disable "keyscrambler" entirely

it definitely makes your computer more secure, but it's only because no one will bother writing a bypass.

[xcsler]

Thanks.

[TierNolan]

That is pretty interesting.

You could make it completely secure by having the encryption done in the keyboard and decryption done for the website.

When you connect to a "keyboard secure" website, a LCD display on your keyboard shows the name of the website and the "lock symbol" saying that it has verified the signature against the root authorities that it knows about.

Whatever you type is then encrypted and the website can decrypt it.

It would need a processor though to do the public key stuff.

[grue]

That is pretty interesting.

You could make it completely secure by having the encryption done in the keyboard and decryption done for the website.

When you connect to a "keyboard secure" website, a LCD display on your keyboard shows the name of the website and the "lock symbol" saying that it has verified the signature against the root authorities that it knows about.

Whatever you type is then encrypted and the website can decrypt it.

It would need a processor though to do the public key stuff.

that's what 2 factor authentication is for. no need for fancy keyboards either.