Re: RSA chips from Japan?

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David Honig (honig@sprynet.com)
Thu, 06 Aug 1998 07:34:08 -0700


At 12:44 PM 8/6/98 +0100, Mok-Kong Shen wrote:
>David Honig wrote:
>
>> That flexibility can also work against you. A hostile OS can
>> subvert you. A closed box outside your computer, handling all
>> outside communications, can't change.
>>
>> "Where do you want (your messages) to go today?"
>
>With your pessimism I see there remains only one single way of doing
>confidential communications: Go to your partner personally and
>conduct a conversation in a absulutely sound-tight vault (perhaps
>with walls thicker than required against nuclear blast). I think
>though that there are always sufficiently reasonable and practicable
>compromises in life.
>
>M. K. Shen

Your risks; your benefits; your choice. In the land of the free, your choice.

honig@alum.mit.edu

  


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