[geeks] Palladium

[Joshua D Boyd]

On Thu, Jun 27, 2002 at 10:09:13AM -0400, Kurt Huhn wrote:
> Joshua D Boyd wrote:
> > 
> > Microsoft wants the hardware to be redesigned to guaranty OS
> > security.  I wonder how they think they are really going to pull that
> > off?  Not the getting the hardware to cooperate, but being really
> > secure, in this age when it is relatively easy to do bus taps (see the
> > article on breaking the XBox security) and disect chips (and hey, we
> > happen to know someone with a SEM that would probably be just perfect
> > for the job) to get the authentication codes that were hardwired into
> > the machine?
> > 
> 
> Yup, and when you talk about how lax the security in stuff like this is, people
> look at you like you're some kind of l33t h4x0r.  It's not all that
> complicated, really.  A little research, and some examples to play with, is all
> it would take to bust that 'security' wide open.  Really, it's not nuclear
> physi...oh wait...

Yeah, I think it starts becoming nuclear physics when one is using a
SEM.  I was perhaps a bit hasty though.  Stage 1 would probably be
dissectable with a SEM, but can SEMs go down to 0.13 or less microns,
or would that cann for an STM?

I wish I new more about chip design.  

-- 
Joshua D. Boyd