Re: Palladium -- trivially weak in hw but "secure in software"??(Re: palladium presentation - anyone going?)

2002-10-22 Thread Arnold G. Reinhold
At 4:52 PM +0100 10/22/02, Adam Back wrote: Remote attestation does indeed require Palladium to be secure against the local user.  However my point is while they seem to have done a good job of providing software security for the remote attestation function, it seems at this point that hardware s

Re: palladium presentation - anyone going?

2002-10-22 Thread Arnold G. Reinhold
At 10:52 PM +0100 10/21/02, Adam Back wrote: On Sun, Oct 20, 2002 at 10:38:35PM -0400, Arnold G. Reinhold wrote: There may be a hole somewhere, but Microsoft is trying hard to get it right and Brian seemed quite competent. It doesn't sound breakable in pure software for the user, so

Re: palladium presentation - anyone going?

2002-10-20 Thread Arnold G. Reinhold
At 7:15 PM +0100 10/17/02, Adam Back wrote: Would someone at MIT / in Boston area like to go to this [see end] and send a report to the list? I went. It was a good talk. The room was jam packed. Brian is very forthright and sincere. After he finished speaking, Richard Stallman gave an uninvite