Re: disabling Intel PSN

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Fri, 17 Dec 1999 20:43:05 +0000 (GMT)


> That's not true. It only decreases security if you make the manual
> part of the passphrase correspondingly shorter. As an *addition*, it
> increases security. As a *replacement*, it decreases security.

Dangerous assumption. You now have known key plaintext.

> Although I personally disagree with (c), if a company has a product I
> want I'd rather see them make it available on Linux with a dumb
> license rather than not offer it at all.

Fortunately if you pick the right CPU's (eg the winchip) you can spoof
the CPUID 8)

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