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Mok-Kong Shen (mok-kong.shen@stud.uni-muenchen.de)
Thu, 06 Aug 1998 12:53:27 +0100
bram wrote:
>
> General purpose computers are vastly more susceptible to software
> compromise than discrete dedicated pieces of hardware are.
>
> Also, it just plain isn't economically feasible to guard computers against
> side channel attacks, while it is feasible for dedicated hardware.
Maybe I am simply ignorant. But I don't yet see how there could be
a compromise if I use a computer to do encryption that is not
connected to the net and is tempest-proof and with software that
I have critically examined for integrity and sufficiency of
security.
M. K. Shen
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