On 09/06/2010 07:48 AM, Partha Chowdhury wrote: > Recently I am looking for an ergonomic keyboard to replace my old > samsung pleomax keyboard. I wanted to buy microsoft natural ergonomic > keyboard 4000 but that is not in the market and the only other keyboard > I find is logitech ergonomic keyboard K350.The keyboard is very > comfortable to type and works out-of-the box with linux. But the thing > is that it is wireless and after a search of "wireless keyboard > security" on google i am a bit paranoid about using any wireless > keyboard.Also I did not find any encryption option if used by the > keyboard while using the logitech provided setpoint software on windows > XP and logitech site does not mention if the keyboard uses > encryption.Does this keyboard uses some hardware in-built encryption > that logitech does not divulge ? > > If others on the list are using wireless keyboard, what are your > experiences and recommendations ? > Google searches do return some interesting results [2]. Although a keyboard/receiver pair can claim to use encryption it may be poorly implemented [1]. Logitech seems to use a proper encryption scheme [2] but who knows if it has some flaw that makes it easy to break. [1] http://arstechnica.com/hardware/news/2007/12/wireless-keyboard-encryption-easily-broken-say-researchers.ars [2] http://www.logitech.com/images/pdf/roem/Logitech_Adv_24_Ghz_Whitepaper_BPG2009.pdf -- Mauro Santos
