-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 At 03:55 PM 1/26/2002 -0500, Perry E. Metzger wrote: > >"[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >writes: >> Not wanting to have extended contest over this, > >I'm afraid I'm not letting it drop. > >> but all these absolutes in >> the comments are just too simplistic. Devices can be made as >> tamper-resistant as the threat- and value-model required. > >No, they can't. That's an engineering hope, not an engineering >reality. The hope you're expressing is that "well, maybe we can't >make it impossible to break this design, but we can make it cost >more to >break the system than breaking it will bring the bad guy, and we can >do that without said tamper-resistance costing us more than we can >afford."
I've heard rumor of an effort a while back to layer Thermite into a printed circuit board, so that a machine could self-destruct in case of tampering. I doubt it ever got reviewed by OSHA, however. :) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGP 6.5.8 iQA/AwUBPFNoY3PxfjyW5ytxEQIvlgCgowahUTOiGYpWHu/YhuJpGSfWzs4An2Cm tiaRwxCxNE51RKtmS6F0f+UF =8jjr -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- +------------------------------------------------------------------+ |Carl M. Ellison [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://world.std.com/~cme | | PGP: 08FF BA05 599B 49D2 23C6 6FFD 36BA D342 | +--Officer, officer, arrest that man. He's whistling a dirty song.-+ --------------------------------------------------------------------- The Cryptography Mailing List Unsubscribe by sending "unsubscribe cryptography" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
