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Re: starting up servers that need access to secrets
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Rich Salz)
Wed Jan 5 16:47:35 2000
Date: Wed, 5 Jan 2000 11:12:19 -0500 (EST)
From: Rich Salz <salzr@certco.com>
To: Ted Lemon <mellon@isc.org>
Cc: cryptography@c2.net
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Good note. Shows why we (should) all get paid the big bucks to create
secure systems. :) Everything's a trade-off.
I was assuming the adversary had physical access to the machine's console
and could reboot, etc., at will, which seems to make your defense moot,
at least for the (very few) systems I'm aware of.
/r$
