[43790] in Cypherpunks
Re: Virus attacks on PGP
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John Lull)
Wed Nov 22 07:17:07 1995
From: John Lull <lull@acm.org>
To: SINCLAIR DOUGLAS N <sinclai@ecf.toronto.edu>
Cc: cypherpunks@toad.com
Date: Tue, 21 Nov 1995 17:39:43 GMT
On Tue, 21 Nov 1995 08:34:46 -0500, you wrote:
> 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.
In the drive hardware.
