[118192] in Cypherpunks
RE: Is There a Visor Security Model?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Trei, Peter)
Tue Sep 21 16:21:21 1999
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From: "Trei, Peter" <ptrei@rsasecurity.com>
To: cryptography@c2.net, cypherpunks@cyberpass.net,
Digital Bearer Settlement List <dbs@philodox.com>,
"'Robert Hettinga'"
<rah@shipwright.com>
Date: Tue, 21 Sep 1999 16:08:27 -0400
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Reply-To: "Trei, Peter" <ptrei@rsasecurity.com>
The Visor uses Palm OS, so I don't think it's any better.
Peter Trei
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> Subject: Is There a Visor Security Model?
>
> Everyone's probably heard of the new Palm-alike Visor by now, and
> it's got this "springboard" slot in the back processors, memory, and
> other stuff.
>
> The Palm's security model is, by most accounts I've seen, non-existant.
>
> Is the Visor any better?
>
> It would be nice to have a portable cryptographic/signature/digital
> money device. Are we any closer?
>
> Cheers,
> RAH
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