Re: Palladium and malware

2002-09-04 Thread Bill Frantz
At 9:00 PM -0700 8/30/02, Nomen Nescio wrote: >Bill Frantz writes, regarding the possibility that the Palladium >architecture could be designed to resist the use of encrypted >code: > >> All general purpose computers require a way to move data space to code >> space to support compilation. > >Well

Re: Palladium and malware

2002-08-31 Thread Nomen Nescio
Bill Frantz writes, regarding the possibility that the Palladium architecture could be designed to resist the use of encrypted code: > All general purpose computers require a way to move data space to code > space to support compilation. Well, this is usually done by storing the data to the dis

Re: Palladium and malware

2002-08-30 Thread Derek Atkins
Bill Frantz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > All general purpose computers require a way to move data space to code > space to support compilation. Even if you don't allow compilation, most > modern systems have enough different powerful scripting languages that > interpretation is sufficient to su

Re: Palladium and malware

2002-08-30 Thread Bill Frantz
At 9:40 PM -0700 8/29/02, Nomen Nescio wrote: >There is a computer design called the Harvard architecture which has a >strict separation between code and data space, and conceivably Palladium >could use a similar approach to make it impossible to run decrypted code. >Adopting this approach would a

Re: Palladium and malware

2002-08-30 Thread Nomen Nescio
Paul Crowley asks: > 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

Re: Palladium and malware

2002-08-29 Thread bear
On 29 Aug 2002, 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

Re: Palladium and malware

2002-08-29 Thread Bill Stewart
At 01:50 AM 08/29/2002 +0100, 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

Re: Palladium and malware

2002-08-29 Thread Ben Laurie
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 want

Palladium and malware

2002-08-28 Thread Paul Crowley
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 at