[118495] in Cypherpunks
Re: IBM to built crypto-on-a-chip into all its PCs
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Damien Miller)
Wed Sep 29 21:57:43 1999
Date: Thu, 30 Sep 1999 11:39:16 +1000 (EST)
From: Damien Miller <dmiller@ilogic.com.au>
To: "William H. Geiger III" <whgiii@openpgp.net>
Cc: Digital Bearer Settlement List <dbs@philodox.com>,
cypherpunks@cyberpass.net, cryptography@c2.net
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On Tue, 28 Sep 1999, William H. Geiger III wrote:
> 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.
I don't see what this paranoia gains you.
If you do not trust the crypto processor then you should throw the
whole machine out - there are *so* many other ways that IBM could have
compromised the system.
This is doubly interesting given you choice of operating system
(as mentioned in your .sig).
Regards,
Damien Miller
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