Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 19 Dec 1998 02:02:09 +0100 (CET) | From | Andrea Arcangeli <> | Subject | Re: Intel microcode fixes [OFF-TOPIC] |
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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
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