On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 09:42:21PM -0500, Jerry Leichter wrote:
[...]
> If one organization distributes the dongles, they could accept
> only updates signed by that organization. We have pretty good
> methods for keeping private keys secret at the enterprise level,
> so the risks should be manageable.
But even then, poor planning for things like key size (a la the
recent Texas Instruments signing key brute-forcing) are going to be
an issue.
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