Microsoft announces wireless keyboard -- that's encrypted!

[thewayne]

This is pretty cool! It's not a common attack vector, but it's one that has been exploited and wouldn't be difficult. They're using AES-128, which is not easily broken. The cool thing about it is that it's going to sell for $40! The bad thing is that it isn't ergonomic, otherwise I'd be seriously interested.

http://www.h-online.com/security/news/item/Microsoft-wireless-keyboard-with-128-bit-AES-encryption-1254793.html

Comments

[silveradept]

Interesting. Would that we could deploy that kind of encryption everywhere and defeat even hardware keyloggers.

[thewayne.livejournal.com]

I don't know enough about how AES works, I wonder if it has a button to regenerate the key.