Messages in this thread |  | | From | "H. Peter Anvin" <> | | Subject | Re: One for the Security Guru's | | Date | 25 Oct 2002 13:52:27 -0700 |
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Followup to: <1035539042.23977.24.camel@forge> By author: Henning Schmiedehausen <hps@intermeta.de> In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel > > > > A. If there's a buffer overflow in the SSL Accelerator box the firewall > > wont do you much good (it helps, but only a little). > > This is a hardware device. Hardware as in "silicon". I very much doubt > that you can run "general purpose programs" on a device specifically > designed to do crypto. And this is _not_ just an "embedded Linux on ix86 > with a crypto chip". >
Hardware devices have bugs, too. Furthermore, most devices marketed as "hardware" still have programmable stuff underneath. Trust me.
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