begin quoting James G. Sack (jim) as of Tue, Apr 11, 2006 at 07:50:54PM -0700: > Randall Shimizu wrote: > > IBM's encryption chip technology > > (http://domino.research.ibm.com/comm/pr.nsf/pages/news.20060410_security.html > > ) > > > > This encrpytion technology will go a long ways to solving internal > > security issues. Hopefully all communications can now be encrypted. > > One difference is that this a IP (intellectual property) system on > > chip implementation. This means that the encryption can be > > integrated as part of a chip rather than necessitating the need for > > a seperate processor. > > OK, who wants to get in the first_availability pool? > > When will this first (or similar) become available on retail motherboards? > > I say >2yrs but <4yrs (er.. sometime in 2008/2009)
Hel-lo DRM! If the data is encrypted in RAM, no more breaking DRM by using instrumented RAM. Trusted computing bases are good... if you're the one who gets to set the policy. -- _ |\_ \| -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
