Jim Rees
Fri, 22 Jun 2001 07:33:15 -0700
I don't know about the rest of it, but a former colleague of mine worked on a secure booting system using a smartcard. I don't see anything on his web page about it but you could contact him directly. http://www.citi.umich.edu/u/itoi/ But if you really are concerned about "very skilled hackers" you will need significant hardware protection, like a processor with integrated boot code or an epoxy potted processor and boot rom module. Even then you won't be able to completely protect the system against everyone. *************************************************************** Linux Smart Card Developers - M.U.S.C.L.E. (Movement for the Use of Smart Cards in a Linux Environment) http://www.linuxnet.com/smartcard/index.html ***************************************************************