Re: Intel microcode fixes [OFF-TOPIC]

Andrea Arcangeli (andrea@e-mind.com)
Sat, 19 Dec 1998 02:02:09 +0100 (CET)


On 13 Dec 1998, H. Peter Anvin wrote:

>You can export authentication software. You can export encryption
>*hardware* if the encryption is not general-purpose (i.e. the user
>can't use it to encrypt stuff.) Intel would trivially get a license
>to export the P6.

And probably it would be not too hard to write a decryption program in
hardware since they doesn' t need to use public key crypto. And btw I
think they need only an algorithm hard enough to avoid reverse
engeneering from the world (considering the time finite time of course ;).

Andrea Arcangeli

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