[104308] in Cypherpunks
Re: "It's a Hardware Problem..."
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Alan Olsen)
Thu Oct 15 12:28:20 1998
Date: Fri, 16 Oct 1998 00:12:27 -0700 (PDT)
From: Alan Olsen <alan@clueserver.org>
To: Robert Hettinga <rah@shipwright.com>
cc: cypherpunks@cyberpass.net, cryptography@c2.net
In-Reply-To: <v04011720b248f21a987e@[139.167.130.246]>
Reply-To: Alan Olsen <alan@clueserver.org>
On Tue, 13 Oct 1998, Robert Hettinga wrote:
> "Computer firewalls have always been dependent on software, which means
> they are 'soft' and subject to manipulations," says Larry Dalton, manager
> of Sandia's High Integrity Software Systems Engineering Department. "Our
> device is hardware and is extremely difficult to break into. You have one
> and only one chance in a million of picking exactly the right code compared
> to a one in 10,000 chance, with many additional chances, in most software
> firewalls. After one failed try, this new device mechanically shuts down
> and can't be reset and reopened except by the owner."
Sounds like a great denial of service attack.
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