Re: MUSCLE Disk encryption and more

[Peter Tomlinson]

Jim,

Suggest you get to grips with the Trusted Computing Platform Alliance, who
already have demo systems built to their spec (I saw one such at HP here in
Bristol, UK, last autumn). Most of the big western hemisphere PC platform
manufacturers have joined this initiative. If they haven't built into their
spec a system to control what programs it can run, they should have.

Peter T
Bristol UK
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jim Rees" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Smart Muscleheads" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Friday, June 22, 2001 10:13 PM
Subject: Re: MUSCLE Disk encryption and more


>   Ok, so you have a bunch of executables and a table of pre-computed
CRC's.
>
> No, you have a bunch of executables, and for each you have a crypto hash
> signed with a private key.
>
> You could store the public key in the secure rom, but this guy wants to
use
> a smart card, presumably because he wants to be able to re-key.  Of course
> the card and the secure hardware still have to share a key (or key pair)
so
> they can mutually authenticate.
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