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Re: "Wild and Crazy": Interview with Palladium's Mario Juarez
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jim Hughes)
Tue Jul 2 19:25:08 2002
From: Jim Hughes <jim@storage.network.com>
To: ji@research.att.com
Cc: cryptography@wasabisystems.com
In-Reply-To: <200207022108.RAA03635@bual.research.att.com>
Date: 02 Jul 2002 18:15:25 -0500
I think his comment is can you cannot backup the key.
Maybe the answer is that the key is in the processor and you must
1. get a new identity whenever you change processor chips and
2. that moving disks from machine to machine is not possible, only
plaintext copy.
Seems workable to me :^(
On Tue, 2002-07-02 at 16:08, ji@research.att.com wrote:
> <pasward@shoshin.uwaterloo.ca> writes:
> > In other words, when the MB is fried because of some freak electrical
> > surge, I'm screwed, because I can't put the HD into another machine
> > and get the data off it?
>
> What's wrong with your backups? :-)
>
> This is like a problem Windows already has: if you move a disk onto
> different hardware, more often than not you can't boot because the
> wrong Hardware Adaptation Layer info is in the disk's boot sector. At
> least you can recover the data by mounting it as a second disk.
>
> /ji
>
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