Re: Cryptogram: Palladium Only for DRM

2002-09-19 Thread Peter N. Biddle
any given piece of data. P - Original Message - From: Nomen Nescio [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, September 18, 2002 5:10 PM Subject: Re: Cryptogram: Palladium Only

Re: Cryptogram: Palladium Only for DRM

2002-09-19 Thread David Wagner
Peter N. Biddle wrote: [...] You can still extract everything in Pd via a HW attack. [...] How is this BORE resistant? The Pd security model is BORE resistant for a unique secret protected by a unique key on a given machine. Your hack on your machine won't let you learn the secrets on my

Re: Cryptogram: Palladium Only for DRM

2002-09-18 Thread Ed Gerck
which isn't debuggable), it is enforced. P - Original Message - From: Ed Gerck [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, September 17, 2002 2:51 PM Subject: Re: Cryptogram: Palladium Only for DRM It may be useful to start off with the observation that Palladium

Re: Cryptogram: Palladium Only for DRM

2002-09-18 Thread Peter
should let me do that. P - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, September 17, 2002 10:54 AM Subject: Re: Cryptogram: Palladium Only for DRM David Wagner wrote: I wasn't thinking of pure software solutions. I was thinking of a combination

Re: Cryptogram: Palladium Only for DRM

2002-09-18 Thread Peter
- Original Message - From: Pete Chown [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, September 17, 2002 4:16 AM Subject: Re: Cryptogram: Palladium Only for DRM AARG!Anonymous wrote: In addition, I have argued that trusted computing in general will work very well with open

Re: Cryptogram: Palladium Only for DRM

2002-09-18 Thread bear
On Wed, 18 Sep 2002, Peter wrote: Hi Pete - I'm confused. Are you suggesting that I should enjoy these freedoms on SW which I don't have legal rights to? In emergencies, yes. Remember the people trying to deal with and organize the WTC rescue efforts, whose software kept rebelling because of

Re: Interests of online banks and their users [was Re: Cryptogram: Palladium Only for DRM]

2002-09-17 Thread Ted Lemon
Relevence to the Pd debate is that banks may in future insist on remote attestation of users' software (however practically possible that is) so that they can attempt to dump yet more liability on their users (Ladies and gentlemen of the jury, Mr Doe's claim that he did not authorise this

Re: Cryptogram: Palladium Only for DRM

2002-09-17 Thread Perry E. Metzger
It takes a lot for me to get cranky around here, but I'm afraid Aarg! has done it. AARG!Anonymous [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Perry Metzger writes: Why not simply design the OS so it is not a likely victim for viruses? This is a general security problem, not one special to banking

Re: Cryptogram: Palladium Only for DRM

2002-09-17 Thread Peter Gutmann
Niels Ferguson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: At 16:04 16/09/02 -0700, AARG! Anonymous wrote: Nothing done purely in software will be as effective as what can be done when you have secure hardware as the foundation. I discuss this in more detail below. But I am not suggesting to do it purely in

Re: Cryptogram: Palladium Only for DRM

2002-09-17 Thread David Wagner
AARG!Anonymous wrote: David Wagner writes: Standard process separation, sandboxes, jails, virtual machines, or other forms of restricted execution environments would suffice to solve this problem. Nothing done purely in software will be as effective as what can be done when you have secure

Re: Cryptogram: Palladium Only for DRM

2002-09-17 Thread Niels Ferguson
At 16:00 17/09/02 +1200, Peter Gutmann wrote: But I am not suggesting to do it purely in software. Read the Intel manuals for their CPUs. There are loads of CPU features for process separation, securing the operating system, etc. The hardware is all there! There was a rather nice paper at Usenix

Re: Cryptogram: Palladium Only for DRM

2002-09-17 Thread Bill Frantz
At 11:02 PM -0700 9/16/02, David Wagner wrote: AARG!Anonymous wrote: David Wagner writes: Standard process separation, sandboxes, jails, virtual machines, or other forms of restricted execution environments would suffice to solve this problem. Nothing done purely in software will be as

Re: Cryptogram: Palladium Only for DRM

2002-09-17 Thread asokan
David Wagner wrote: I wasn't thinking of pure software solutions. I was thinking of a combination of existing hardware + new software: use the MMU to provide separate address spaces, and use a secure VM or OS kernel to limit what those processes can do. As far as I can see, this can provide

RE: Cryptogram: Palladium Only for DRM

2002-09-17 Thread Trei, Peter
Niels Ferguson[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] wrote: Well, I'm tired of this. AARG, or whoever is hiding behind this pseudonym, is obviously not reading the responses that I send, as he keeps asking questions I already answered. I'm not going to waste more of my time responding to this. This is

Re: Cryptogram: Palladium Only for DRM

2002-09-17 Thread Ed Gerck
It may be useful to start off with the observation that Palladium will not be the answer for a platform that *the user* can trust. However, Palladium should raise awareness on the issue of what a user can trust, and what not. Since a controling element has to lie outside the controled system,

Re: Interests of online banks and their users [was Re: Cryptogram: Palladium Only for DRM]

2002-09-17 Thread Anne Lynn Wheeler
At 01:07 PM 9/17/2002 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As far as I know, banks assume that a certain percentage of their transactions will be bad and build that cost into their business model. Credit and ATM cards and numbers are as far from secure as could be, far less secure than somebody

Re: Cryptogram: Palladium Only for DRM

2002-09-17 Thread Anne Lynn Wheeler
At 06:02 AM 9/17/2002 +, David Wagner wrote: I wasn't thinking of pure software solutions. I was thinking of a combination of existing hardware + new software: use the MMU to provide separate address spaces, and use a secure VM or OS kernel to limit what those processes can do. As far as I

Re: Interests of online banks and their users [was Re: Cryptogram: Palladium Only for DRM]

2002-09-17 Thread R. A. Hettinga
At 1:07 PM -0700 on 9/17/02, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As far as I know, banks assume that a certain percentage of their transactions will be bad and build that cost into their business model. Credit and ATM cards and numbers are as far from secure as could be, far less secure than somebody