USB armory

[bitwelder]

I've recently backed this project (it's not on KS or IGG, but Crowdsupply):
https://www.crowdsupply.com/inverse-path/usb-armory
"USB armory: an open source USB stick computer for security applications."
The project is completely open source. The board has been routed with KiCad,
the project files are on github, and the SoC used has public datasheets.

The author made an interesting presentation at the recent 31C3 conference:

[Dago]

The design looks very neat. I have no idea what I'd use one for though (especially for 130!).

[codeboy2k]

Interesting device. Small form factor.  I think the key feature they bring to the table is secure boot.  So you can guarantee that the image you are about to load into the device has not been tampered with. Presumably it's signed with keys that are in the device and can't be read out.

Otherwise it's just a linux host which can run standard utilities like ssh, openssh utils (so you can run a CA) perhaps a bitcoin client and store your keys securely etc.

Sounds pretty cool because it's open and inherently hackable.