Re: Dell to Add Security Chip to PCs

2005-02-05 Thread Anne Lynn Wheeler
Peter Gutmann wrote: Neither. Currently they've typically been smart-card cores glued to the MB and accessed via I2C/SMB. and chips that typically have had eal4+ or eal5+ evaluations. hot topic in 2000, 2001 ... at the intel developer's forums and rsa conferences

Re: Dell to Add Security Chip to PCs

2005-02-05 Thread Anne Lynn Wheeler
Erwann ABALEA wrote: I've read your objections. Maybe I wasn't clear. What's wrong in installing a cryptographic device by default on PC motherboards? I work for a PKI 'vendor', and for me, software private keys is a nonsense. How will you convice Mr Smith (or Mme Michu) to buy an expensive CC

Re: Dell to Add Security Chip to PCs

2005-02-05 Thread Steven M. Bellovin
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Dan Kaminsky writes: Uh, you *really* have no idea how much the black hat community is looking forward to TCPA. For example, Office is going to have core components running inside a protected environment totally immune to antivirus. How? TCPA is only a

Re: Dell to Add Security Chip to PCs

2005-02-05 Thread Mark Allen Earnest
Trei, Peter wrote: It could easily be leveraged to make motherboards which will only run 'authorized' OSs, and OSs which will run only 'authorized' software. And you, the owner of the computer, will NOT neccesarily be the authority which gets to decide what OS and software the machine can run. If

Re: Dell to Add Security Chip to PCs

2005-02-04 Thread Eugen Leitl
On Wed, Feb 02, 2005 at 05:30:33PM +0100, Erwann ABALEA wrote: Please stop relaying FUD. You have full control over your PC, even if this Please stop relaying pro-DRM pabulum. The only reason for Nagscab is restricting the user's rights to his own files. Of course there are other reasons for

Re: Dell to Add Security Chip to PCs

2005-02-04 Thread Erwann ABALEA
On Wed, 2 Feb 2005, Dan Kaminsky wrote: Uh, you *really* have no idea how much the black hat community is looking forward to TCPA. For example, Office is going to have core components running inside a protected environment totally immune to antivirus. How? TCPA is only a cryptographic

RE: Dell to Add Security Chip to PCs

2005-02-02 Thread Trei, Peter
Seeing as it comes out of the TCG, this is almost certainly the enabling hardware for Palladium/NGSCB. Its a part of your computer which you may not have full control over. Peter Trei Tyler Durden ANyone familiar with computer architectures and chips able to answer this question: That

RE: Dell to Add Security Chip to PCs

2005-02-02 Thread Erwann ABALEA
On Wed, 2 Feb 2005, Trei, Peter wrote: Seeing as it comes out of the TCG, this is almost certainly the enabling hardware for Palladium/NGSCB. Its a part of your computer which you may not have full control over. Please stop relaying FUD. You have full control over your PC, even if this one is

Re: Dell to Add Security Chip to PCs

2005-02-02 Thread Ian G
Erwann ABALEA wrote: On Wed, 2 Feb 2005, Trei, Peter wrote: Seeing as it comes out of the TCG, this is almost certainly the enabling hardware for Palladium/NGSCB. Its a part of your computer which you may not have full control over. Please stop relaying FUD. You have full control over your

Re: Dell to Add Security Chip to PCs

2005-02-02 Thread Dan Kaminsky
Uh, you *really* have no idea how much the black hat community is looking forward to TCPA. For example, Office is going to have core components running inside a protected environment totally immune to antivirus. Since these components are going to be managing cryptographic operations, the