Reading the Wifi report, it seems their customers stampeded them and
demanded that the security hole be fixed, fixed a damned lot sooner
than they intended to fix it.
Which is sort of a shame, in a way. 802.11b has no pretense of media
layer security. I've been thinking of that as an opportunity
Adam Back says:
Providing almost no hardware defenses while going to extra-ordinary
efforts to provide top notch software defenses doesn't make sense if
the machine owner is a threat.
So maybe the Palladium folks really mean it when they say the purpose
of Palladium is not to enable DRM?
I doubt
I see several applications where these tokens could be really
useful where biometric methods are completely useless. Main advantage
seems to be that these tokens are extremely cheap. There are heaps
of applications where these tokens seem to be just perfect.
For a bit of perspective, this work
Wow, this conversation has been fun. Thanks, Anonymous Aarg, for
taking up the unpopular side of the debate. I'll spare any question
about motives.
I think most of us would agree that having a trusted computing
environment makes some interesting things possible. Smartcards,
afterall, are more or
Question. Is it possible to have code that contains a private encryption
key safely?
As a practical matter, yes and no. Practically no, because any way you
hide the encryption key could be reverse engineered. Practically yes,
because if you work at it you can make the key hard enough to reverse
HTTPS SSL does not use PKI. SSL at best has this weird system in which
Verisign has somehow managed to charge web sites a toll for the use of
SSL even though for the most part the certificates assure the users of
nothing whatsoever.
To be fair, Verisign *is* a PKI. It's not the one a lot of us
Another sensationalist article in the NYT about the pervasiveness of
steganography, with yet another lack of any evaluatable information.
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/10/30/science/physical/30STEG.html?pagewanted=print
In summary, evidence for stego in this article is:
Some unnamed French
