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Re: fyi: bear/enforcer open-source TCPA project

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Damian Gerow)
Thu Sep 11 10:55:59 2003

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Date: Thu, 11 Sep 2003 10:26:35 -0400
From: Damian Gerow <dgerow@afflictions.org>
To: Rich Salz <rsalz@datapower.com>
Cc: cryptography@metzdowd.com
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44L0.0309110835490.23008-100000@smtp.datapower.com>

Thus spake Rich Salz (rsalz@datapower.com) [11/09/03 08:51]:
> > You propose to put a key into a physical device and give it
> > to the public, and expect that they will never recover
> > the key from it?  Seems unwise.
> 
> You think "the public" can crack FIPS devices?  This is mass-market, not
> govt-level attackers.

And 'the public' doesn't include people like government level attackers?
People like cryptography experts?  People who like to play with things like
this?

'The public' only includes the sheeple, and nobody else?

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