Re: Microsoft's Jihad - Palladium

From: Doug McIntyre (merlyn@visi.com)
Date: 06/26/02 

From: Doug McIntyre <merlyn@visi.com>
Date: Wed, 26 Jun 2002 18:21:53 GMT

srt@nospam.unt.edu writes:
>Geoff Lane <zzassgl@twirl.mcc.ac.uk> wrote:
>> blunted1 <dank@neverschwag.com> wrote:
>>> Securing content via hardware, will it work? I think not.

>>> I just wanted to get the *NIX spin on Microsoft's latest way to control the
>>> desktop. Will the open source community follow with an equal?

>> It wont work because a program has no idea if it's running on h/w or s/w.
>> Everything a program may check can be faked. We don't do full emulation
>> much today because it's slow but with the Crusoe CPU you can fake any CPU ID
>> you like just by writing a bit of firmware/assembler to emulate all the x86
>> ID instructions.

>And if there are cryptographic keys embedded in the hardware, and they
>don't tell you what they are, how do you plan on emulating the
>hardware?

Just like the crypto key embedded into the Microsoft Xbox? 

-- 
Doug McIntyre						merlyn@visi.com
                   Network Engineer/Jack of All Trades
                      Vector Internet Services, Inc.

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