[43718] in Cypherpunks
Re: Virus attacks on PGP
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (SINCLAIR DOUGLAS N)
Tue Nov 21 08:38:40 1995
From: SINCLAIR DOUGLAS N <sinclai@ecf.toronto.edu>
To: frantz@netcom.com (Bill Frantz)
Date: Tue, 21 Nov 1995 08:34:46 -0500
Cc: cypherpunks@toad.com
In-Reply-To: <199511210732.XAA04912@netcom18.netcom.com> from "Bill Frantz" at Nov 21, 95 02:33:50 am
> 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.
Seeing as PGP is quite small the simplest and cheapest read-only device
would be a write-protected floppy disk.
Could a virus write to a write-protected disk? I'm not sure if the
protection is done in the BIOS or the drive hardware.
