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RE: Dell to Add Security Chip to PCs
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Peter Gutmann)
Fri Feb 4 12:30:51 2005
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From: pgut001@cs.auckland.ac.nz (Peter Gutmann)
To: camera_lumina@hotmail.com, cryptography@metzdowd.com,
cypherpunks@al-qaeda.net, rah@shipwright.com
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Date: Thu, 03 Feb 2005 17:53:22 +1300
"Tyler Durden" <camera_lumina@hotmail.com> writes:
>That "chip"...is it likely to be an ASIC or is there already such a thing as
>a security network processor? (ie, a cheaper network processor that only
>handles security apps, etc...)
>
>Or could it be an FPGA?
Neither. Currently they've typically been smart-card cores glued to the
MB and accessed via I2C/SMB.
Peter.
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