[108078] in Cypherpunks
Another Chip ID Scheme Debuts (Was Re: ECARM NEWS for February
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Robert Hettinga)
Wed Feb 3 18:01:22 1999
In-Reply-To: <199902031900.OAA22148@marcella.ecarm.org>
Date: Wed, 3 Feb 1999 17:18:00 -0500
To: cypherpunks@cyberpass.net, cryptography@c2.net
From: Robert Hettinga <rah@shipwright.com>
Reply-To: Robert Hettinga <rah@shipwright.com>
At 2:00 PM -0500 on 2/3/99, ecarm-news@ecarm.org wrote:
> Title: Another Chip ID Scheme Debuts
> Resource Type: News Article
> Date: 01 Feb 1999, 5:09 PM CST
> Source: Newsbytes
> Author: Matt Hines
> Keywords: SECURITY ,USER TRACKING ,SOFTWARE ,PROCESSOR
>
> Abstract/Summary: While some groups have extended their boycott of Intel
> Corp. [NASDAQ:INTC] over the chip maker's plan to include an
> unique identification with its processors, another developer is
> launching a different security technology aimed at labeling
> individual PCs. Power Technology has introduced a
> proprietary Pentium chip ID technology called IP-Safe. The
> tool is designed to provide the ID capability planned by Intel.
>
> IP-Safe functions with all current Pentium and Pentium type
> processors, and will also function with the new Pentium III
> processor even if the user has turned off their serial number.
>
> "We've developed a proprietary technology that allows us to
> create a unique machine ID for each particular user's
> Pentium type processor and motherboard combination
> without requiring the new technology Intel corporation has
> developed," said Dr. Paul Titchener, president of Power. "We
> specifically designed the system so that it is sufficiently
> unique to support software and content copy protection, but
> not so unique that it fully identifies a particular user, thus
> eliminating concerns over loss of privacy."
>
>
> Original URL: http://www.newsbytes.com/pubNews/125580.html
>
> Added: Wed Feb 0 3:0:0 09:4 1999
> Contributed by: Keeffee
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Robert A. Hettinga <mailto: rah@philodox.com>
Philodox Financial Technology Evangelism <http://www.philodox.com/>
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