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Re: Dell BIOS DoS

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Alexandros Papadopoulos)
Tue Dec 9 19:31:02 2003

From: Alexandros Papadopoulos <apapadop@cmu.edu>
To: David Brodbeck <DavidB@mail.interclean.com>
Date: Tue, 9 Dec 2003 14:43:19 -0500
Cc: bugtraq@securityfocus.com
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On Tuesday 09 December 2003 14:06, David Brodbeck wrote:
<snip>
> There is no such thing as security from someone who has physical
> access to the hardware.

Yet.

See for instance "A New Cryptographic Coprocessor for IBM Servers"
http://www.ece.cmu.edu/~dawnsong/teaching/f03/arnold-xcrypto.pdf

The technology is there, it's just a matter of cost now.

-A

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