[714] in Cypherpunks
Crypto anarchy in a VW? (not the bug)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Eric Hughes)
Tue Jun 1 17:22:09 1993
Date: Tue, 1 Jun 93 13:42:53 -0700
From: Eric Hughes <hughes@soda.berkeley.edu>
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
In-Reply-To: RYAN Alan Porter's message of Tue, 1 Jun 1993 15:53:26 -0400 (EDT) <Pine.3.03.9306011501.A4936-b100000@rtfm>
>> You can't do hard
>> disk encryption in software on the host CPU.
>Well thanks for the advice, but you fergot to mention why...
Performance. Look at how long it take to do encryption via software
and how long by hardware. Consider that a Unix box can do other
processor tasks while the disk is stepping.
Re: EPROM as key
A fragile device makes privacy for hackers only. General privacy will
require something significantly more physically robust.
Eric
