[117005] in Cypherpunks
Re: On Resisting the Jackbooted Thugs
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Tim May)
Wed Aug 25 01:22:17 1999
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Date: Tue, 24 Aug 1999 22:05:51 -0700
To: William Hugh Murray <whmurray@sprynet.com>, cypherpunks@cyberpass.net
From: Tim May <tcmay@got.net>
Reply-To: Tim May <tcmay@got.net>
At 3:53 PM -0700 1999-08-24, William Hugh Murray wrote:
>Tim May writes:
>
>>>>My conclusion is that the key and the encryption engine need to be
>>>>stored in
>a tamper resistant module, such as a PCMCIA card. The module can zeroize
>itself if someone tries a brute force attack. Fortezza is close but it
....g that the biometric is
....
>particularly irksome.
>
>>>>Besides, it would be too bulky and expensive.<<<
>
>I assume that by "it," Tim is referring to the biometric, and more
>specifically, the biometric implemented on the PCMCIA (or other smart
I didn't write a single word of what was attributed to me here.
(At least not that I remember. )
--Tim May
Don't tread on me.
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