[117770] in Cypherpunks
Re: Project: Hardening Crypto Against Big Brother's "BlackBag"
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Howie Goodell)
Fri Sep 10 03:07:58 1999
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Date: Fri, 10 Sep 1999 02:53:14 -0400
From: Howie Goodell <goodell@mediaone.net>
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Peter Gutmann wrote:
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> "crypto in a physically isolated black box" bit is pretty much done, what's
> needed is someone to set up an appropriately configured and stripped-down
> Linux or *BSD kernel to run on the hardware (I know about projects like
> PicoBSD, but they don't quite fit the bill, and I don't really have the time
> to spend ages tweaking the config to get it just right).
>
Do you know about ucLinux and the ucSimm project?
http://www.uclinux.org/simm/
They expect to ship a 32-bit computer running Linux and Ethernet -- on a
1"x3" SIMM -- around the end of this month. First version is a slow
processor though -- 16 MHz 68EZ328 -- like a Palm Pilot.
Howie Goodell
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