[43709] in Cypherpunks
Re: Virus attacks on PGP
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bill Frantz)
Tue Nov 21 02:38:18 1995
Date: Mon, 20 Nov 1995 23:33:50 -0800
To: Thomas E Zerucha <zerucha@shell.portal.com>
From: frantz@netcom.com (Bill Frantz)
Cc: cypherpunks@toad.com
At 14:52 11/20/95 -0800, Thomas E Zerucha wrote:
>... The code can also be cross compiled
>and burned onto a CDROM which would make it difficult to infect.
Certainly having PGP run from a CDROM or other read-only device would be a
big help. Even better would be to have all the privileged code also run
from a read-only device.
Bill Frantz
