[cryptography] Your GPU's “Fingerprint” Could Lead to New Security Methods

2012-10-30 Thread Eugen Leitl
http://h30565.www3.hp.com/t5/Feature-Articles/Your-GPU-s-Fingerprint-Could-Lead-to-New-Security-Methods/ba-p/8418 Your GPU's “Fingerprint” Could Lead to New Security Methods by Andy Patrizio (apatrizio) on 29-10-2012 08:00 AM starlight_dreamstimefree_141720.jpg In the online world, a World of

Re: [cryptography] Your GPU's “Fingerprint” Could Lead to New Security Methods

2012-10-30 Thread Beryl Lusen
On Tue, Oct 30, 2012 at 10:08:06AM +0100, Eugen Leitl wrote: In the online world, a World of Warcraft account can be worth serious money. With such an incentive, malware is set to steal your WoW login and password, should you become infected. To protect an account, WoW users have the option

Re: [cryptography] Your GPU's ???Fingerprint??? Could Lead to New Security Methods

2012-10-30 Thread Jonas Wielicki
On 30.10.2012 14:30, Natanael wrote: Yeah, this looks like TPM with software protection instead of hardware protection. Rootkits can screw it up. I guess that is why the researchers suggested an on-GPU challenge-response protocol implementation which would not hand out the initial SRAM state