[118453] in Cypherpunks
Re: IBM to built crypto-on-a-chip into all its PCs
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (William H. Geiger III)
Tue Sep 28 16:16:02 1999
Message-Id: <199909281956.PAA15851@domains.invweb.net>
From: "William H. Geiger III" <whgiii@openpgp.net>
Date: Tue, 28 Sep 1999 14:53:55 -0500
To: Robert Hettinga <rah@shipwright.com>
In-Reply-To: <v04210101b41578834ee3@[204.167.100.139]>
Cc: Digital Bearer Settlement List <dbs@philodox.com>, dcsb@ai.mit.edu,
cypherpunks@cyberpass.net, cryptography@c2.net
Reply-To: "William H. Geiger III" <whgiii@openpgp.net>
In <v04210101b41578834ee3@[204.167.100.139]>, on 09/27/99
at 03:41 PM, Robert Hettinga <rah@shipwright.com> said:
>Probably IBM will first want to see how attractive the technology is to
>punters. At least the approach of using an ancillary encryption chip
>should keep IBM safe from the nightmare Intel faced when it attempted to
>railroad CPU ID numbers on users.
No Code == No Trust!
This has all the security/trust problems that Intel's RNG does and more. I
wouldn't touch this thing with a ten foot poll.
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