lkml.org 
[lkml]   [1998]   [Dec]   [18]   [last100]   RSS Feed
Views: [wrap][no wrap]   [headers]  [forward] 
 
Messages in this thread
/
Date
From
SubjectRe: Intel microcode fixes [OFF-TOPIC]
On 13 Dec 1998, H. Peter Anvin wrote:

>You can export authentication software. You can export encryption
>*hardware* if the encryption is not general-purpose (i.e. the user
>can't use it to encrypt stuff.) Intel would trivially get a license
>to export the P6.

And probably it would be not too hard to write a decryption program in
hardware since they doesn' t need to use public key crypto. And btw I
think they need only an algorithm hard enough to avoid reverse
engeneering from the world (considering the time finite time of course ;).

Andrea Arcangeli


-
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@vger.rutgers.edu
Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/

\
 
 \ /
  Last update: 2005-03-22 13:46    [W:0.044 / U:0.296 seconds]
©2003-2020 Jasper Spaans|hosted at Digital Ocean and TransIP|Read the blog|Advertise on this site