Re: Crusoe's persistent translation on linux?

From: Henning P. Schmiedehausen (hps@intermeta.de)
Date: Fri Jun 20 2003 - 09:08:00 EST

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Xavier Bestel <xavier.bestel@free.fr> writes:

>Did you just write: "the Crusoe has special backdoors built-in which
>would allow a userspace program to takeover the machine, and Transmeta
>choose security through obscurity to avoid this problem" ?
>Nice call for crackers :)

God (and the NSA) gave you key signing protocols to avoid that.

The Microcode upload for the Intel processors is even well documented.

I have yet to see someone putting out "enhanced microcode files for
the P<xxx> processor".

Regards
Henning

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