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Re: IPSEC on a Palm III?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Eric Murray)
Wed Apr 7 18:36:33 1999
Date: Wed, 7 Apr 1999 13:46:02 -0700
From: Eric Murray <ericm@lne.com>
To: Robert Hettinga <rah@shipwright.com>
Cc: David Honig <honig@sprynet.com>,
Ulrich Kuehn <kuehn@ESCHER.UNI-MUENSTER.DE>,
William Whyte <wwhyte@baltimore.ie>,
"cryptography@c2.net" <cryptography@c2.net>
In-Reply-To: <v04020a08b33174240992@[139.167.130.249]>; from Robert Hettinga on Wed, Apr 07, 1999 at 04:44:37PM -0400
On Wed, Apr 07, 1999 at 04:44:37PM -0400, Robert Hettinga wrote:
> At 3:59 PM -0400 on 4/7/99, David Honig wrote:
>
>
> > I meant that you could *embed* the i-Button into a 'Pilot.
> > As a coprocessor/accelerator for the 'Pilot.
> > Treating the Pilot + button as the trusted box.
>
> Now *there's* an idea?
Considering how many people download random apps into
their pilots, that those apps are usualy binary-only
distribution, and that the Palm OS wasn't designed for
security, I wouldn't place much trust in a Pilot.
Eventually someone will write a trojan which searches
memory for Interesting Things left there by other apps or
pretends to be a trusted app to the user.
--
Eric Murray N*Able Technologies www.nabletech.com
(email: ericm at the sites lne.com or nabletech.com) PGP keyid:E03F65E5
