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daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Michael Bovaird)
Tue Sep 28 17:34:11 1999
From: "Michael Bovaird" <mbovaird@home.com>
To: <cypherpunks@cyberpass.net>
Date: Tue, 28 Sep 1999 15:09:32 -0600
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-----Original Message-----
From: owner-cypherpunks@cyberpass.net
[mailto:owner-cypherpunks@cyberpass.net]On Behalf Of William H. Geiger
III
Sent: Tuesday, September 28, 1999 1:54 PM
To: Robert Hettinga
Cc: Digital Bearer Settlement List; dcsb@ai.mit.edu;
cypherpunks@cyberpass.net; cryptography@c2.net
Subject: Re: IBM to built crypto-on-a-chip into all its PCs
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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