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Re: Micro lock?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (David Honig)
Thu May 27 18:55:20 1999
Date: Thu, 27 May 1999 10:53:58 -0700
To: "Marcus J. Ranum" <mjr@nfr.net>, cryptography@c2.net
From: David Honig <honig@sprynet.com>
In-Reply-To: <3.0.6.32.19990527115339.009a73f0@mail.clark.net>
At 11:53 AM 5/27/99 -0400, Marcus J. Ranum wrote:
>I saw a thing on CNN today about a micro silicon lock that they
>are developing at Sandia. Of course, since this was CNN, it was
>going to be the solution to internet security. It apparently is
>a micromachine with "over a million combinations" (WOW!)
>
>Anyone know anything about this device? I can't think of what
>good it'd be that a microprocessor with some crypto can't do better.
>Which must mean I'm missing something since it presumably took
>a lot of work to make.
>
This came out a while ago. The benefit is that
software can't mess with a hardware lock.
Its succeptible to denial of service attacks.
Its probably just a 'look at this neat thing we made
with our new MEMS tools' project.
dh
