9fans archive / 1996 / 04 / 89 / prev next From: Nigel Roles ngr@sym... Subject: fyi - regarding SNK authentication boxes Date: Mon, 29 Apr 1996 03:31:14 -0400 > What is a SNK-010, and how do you build one with an 8051? > It's the Securenet box refered to in the manuals, that is a pocket-sized DES encryption box. You use it to calculate the response to a challenge when connecting to a Plan 9 network from the outside. for example, across the Internet using ftp or telnet. The box is ~$100, so I thought I'd build one for the hell of it. It would be cheaper, if only I could find a box small enough with a 12 key keypad, a battery compartmernt, and somewhere to put an LCD. Nigel Roles