[3462] in cryptography@c2.net mail archive
RE: "It's a Hardware Problem..." (fwd)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Arnold G. Reinhold)
Wed Oct 14 10:17:00 1998
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.04.9810132356140.25814-100000@bleeding>
Date: Wed, 14 Oct 1998 09:48:38 +0100
To: decius@ninja.techwood.org, cryptography@c2.net
From: "Arnold G. Reinhold" <reinhold@world.std.com>
At 12:22 AM -0500 10/14/98, decius@ninja.techwood.org wrote:
>> "World's Smallest Combination Lock" Promises
>> To Foil The Best Computer Hacker, Say Sandia
>> Developers
>
>
>I like this general idea, but is it really necessary to use nano-machines.
>I'm pretty sure I could implement such a device purely in logic.
. . .
>Am I missing something here? It is rather late.
>
>Tom Cross
I think Sandia is missing something, namely an understanding of what kind
of vulnerabilities hackers exploit. The problem is not the quality of
locks, but how they are used.
File Sandia's nanolock under solutions looking for a problem.
Arnold Reinhold
