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RE: Rainbow technologies to use P3 serial number.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Austin Hill)
Tue Feb 23 13:27:14 1999
Reply-To: <austin@zks.net>
From: "Austin Hill" <austin@zks.net>
To: <cryptography@c2.net>
Date: Tue, 23 Feb 1999 13:08:02 -0500
In-Reply-To: <29E0A6D39ABED111A36000A0C99609CA2C2986@macertco-srv1.ma.certco.com>
So if I want to visit e-commerce sites from one of my 6 machines (Which
include a Macintosh, Sun and 4 Pentium's/Pentium Pro's) after having visited
with my new P3 I'll not be able to get access? Chat rooms, corporate
extranets and ecommerce sites such as Amazon are now going to turn away
customers who aren't using the same PC all the time?
This is a stupid way to build authentication. Lugging around my desktop PC
to authenticate myself is not intelligent. You would think Rainbow, Intel
and others would stop throwing around the bogus claims that this is good for
theft prevention and authentication. The only real practical use is for
corporate IS managers to manage inventory (Which can be done otherways) and
reduce cost of ownership, and also to enforce per processor software
lisensing. All this talk about ecommerce and theft prevention is bogus.
Also if you haven't seen http://www.heise.de/ct/english/99/05/news1/ ;
turns out the software switch to turn off the serial number doesn't really
work.
-Austin
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>-----Original Message-----
>From: salzr@certco.com [mailto:salzr@certco.com]
>Sent: Tuesday, February 23, 1999 10:04 AM
>To: cryptography@c2.net
>Subject: Rainbow technologies to use P3 serial number.
>
>
>Rainbow Technologies, Inc. a provider of high-performance
>security solutions
>for the Internet and e-commerce, today announced its i-Guard
>Client Security
>Framework. Rainbow developed the i-Guard in coordination with Intel
>Corporation (Nasdaq:INTC) to provide reliable authentication over the
>Internet using the processor serial number feature found in Intel’s new
>Pentium III processor. Rainbow’s i-Guard includes secured agents and a
>software development kit (SDK) that offer a way to control access to
>web-based data, a real concern for e-commerce sites, chat
>rooms, corporate
>extranet and intranet controlled access and online gaming, where simple
>password access is not enough.
>
>
