[107608] in Cypherpunks
Re: Intel sets encryption plan
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (David Honig)
Tue Jan 19 13:50:18 1999
Date: Tue, 19 Jan 1999 10:23:57 -0800
To: "William H. Geiger III" <whgiii@openpgp.net>
From: David Honig <honig@sprynet.com>
Cc: "Live & Loud" <sandro@pop.hsbcbamerindus.com.br>, cypherpunks@toad.com
In-Reply-To: <199901190718.CAA002.40@whgiii>
Reply-To: David Honig <honig@sprynet.com>
At 02:10 AM 1/19/99 -0500, William H. Geiger III wrote:
>>Last month Intel described adding security features to BIOSes,
>>essentially to suck up to Hollywood, to turn PCs into license-friendly
>>media players. Or to gain control in the market by BIOS bullying.
>
>Well I know that Wintel has been doing a lot of work in creating creating
>an anti-piracy system. IIRC they were trying to design a system when one
>bought a piece of software it would be coded for a specific CPU and would
>not run on any other. I would imagine that crypto functions on the CPU
>would be an integral part of such a system.
Sun workstations have had motherboard serial no.s in ROMs forever, and
software has been locked to machines with them for a long time. But this
makes
upgrading your machine a pain, another reason floating licenses are popular.
