[116995] in Cypherpunks
RE: Project: Hardening Crypto Against Big Brother's "BlackBag" Intrusions
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Kurt Buff)
Tue Aug 24 23:46:02 1999
From: "Kurt Buff" <kurtbuff@lightmail.com>
Cc: <cypherpunks@cyberpass.net>
Date: Tue, 24 Aug 1999 20:28:33 -0700
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These two products are steps in the right direction...
http://www.rainbow.com/ikey/index.html
http://www.rfideas.com/
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| From: owner-cypherpunks@toad.com
| [mailto:owner-cypherpunks@toad.com]On Behalf Of steve bryan Sent:
| Tuesday, August 24, 1999 13:28 To: John Haggerty Cc:
| cypherpunks@cyberpass.net Subject: Re: Project: Hardening Crypto
| Against Big Brother's "BlackBag" Intrusions
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| >Hmm.. What would happen if you just planted couple hundred
| pounds of dynamite
| >and had it triggered when anyone entered the home except you
| via some remote
| >signaling device, then when they try to go into your house
| the whole thing is
| >blown to bits investigators, evidence, and all.
|
| There are already laws about schemes of this sort. People with
| summer lake cottages tend to have problems with locals who can't
| stand the temptation of unoccupied residences. To deal with the
| frustration of persistent break-ins some absentee owners resort to
| 'Rube Goldberg' trigger devices to punish the scofflaws. Much to
| their consternation, though, they tend to lose civil (and even
| criminal) cases to the failed perpetrator who gets injured (or
| killed and his dependents sue).
|
| I've thought for some time that a PC card solution is probably
| best. Have your system, certificates, PGP keys, all on a PC card
| that you can always keep with you and boot your system from that.
| Then the snoops can try to infect all the other stuff as much as
| they want but fail to get anything worthwhile. All the fixed
| partitions would be maintained as encrypted partitions that can't
| be mounted without the keys that you keep on your PC card. I've
| heard that firewire drives may soon include a ROM to allow them to
| be bootable. They are physically small, sturdy, with ample
| capacity, and high bandwidth. Maybe the scheme can soon be
| implemented.
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