Paul Crowley wrote: > I'm informed that malware authors often go to some lengths to prevent > their software from being disassembled. Could they use Palladium for > this end? Are there any ways in which the facilities that Palladium > and TCPA provide could be useful to a malware author who wants to > frustrate legitimate attempts to understand and defeat their software?
That would depend on what facilities the OS layers on top of TCPA/Palladium. Certainly I could believe an OS would exist that would simply refuse read access to executables, and Palladium/TCPA could be used to encrypt them such that they were inaccessible except under that OS. So, in short. Yes. Cheers, Ben. -- http://www.apache-ssl.org/ben.html http://www.thebunker.net/ Available for contract work. "There is no limit to what a man can do or how far he can go if he doesn't mind who gets the credit." - Robert Woodruff --------------------------------------------------------------------- The Cryptography Mailing List Unsubscribe by sending "unsubscribe cryptography" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]