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Nedd help to make a small software project

Question posted by: ovic (Newbie) on March 10th, 2008 04:19 AM
i'm doing a project in system analysis and design. where i have to make a software like this- if i enter a pendrive into a system, it will check the unique number of the pendrive and if the number match with the existing unique number then the system can be access or otherwise the mouse and keyboard will be lock. so can anyone help me to do this. please give me some guideline and please give me the api for getting the pendrive unique number and mouse and keboard locking api code. i want to develop it in java,but if anywant preffer something other then i will try to do that. please help me
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talonx
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March 30th, 2008
01:51 PM
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Re: Nedd help to make a small software project
The first thing I would do, is google for it. No I don't know the answer to your question, but do you realize what an amazing tool you have at your fingertips in Google? Surely if you can type a question here you can run a search also :)

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vasilebraileanu
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April 1st, 2008
07:53 PM
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Re: Nedd help to make a small software project
Hi. The problem is this:
if you make the software in java, how you access keyboard and mouse when java itself runs in a machine. Plus, in which OS do you want to do this? In newest Vista from Microsoft... you cannot block mouse or keyboard... only if you run a service with a special program. That means you need to make a special windows loader.

The simplest mode to make this running is making a full disk encryption because security is the main issue with pendrives. They are not created for security systems, although some models have incorporated encryption. Is the simplest (and can be done in java). You need to create an encrypted partition or file systems, along with a program who reads files and directories. I have done this few years ago in C++, encrypting image files to be written in cd. Later, when you accessed the cd, you need key to see image files.

Read more on wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USB_flash_drive

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