AW: Smartcards, one alternative solution to it..?

thomas schorpp t.schorpp at gmx.de
Thu Aug 21 21:48:01 CEST 2003


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> -----Ursprungliche Nachricht-----
> Von: gnupg-devel-admin at gnupg.org [mailto:gnupg-devel-admin at gnupg.org]Im
> Auftrag von Janusz A. Urbanowicz
> Gesendet: Donnerstag, 21. August 2003 20:20
> An: thomas schorpp
> Cc: Gnupg-Devel; Winpt-Users; Winpt-Dev; Gnupg-Users
> Betreff: Re: Smartcards, one alternative solution to it..?
>
>
> > for workstation:
> >
> > what about booting a secure protected mode virtual machine minimal open
> > source linux box within a normal-use os?
> > all security software and secure shells, mails, document
> editors running in
> > this box?
> > modern processors protected mode should work well...
>
> You are reinventing MS Palladium/NGSCB here.

if i read the msdn right, thats not the thing i suggested, cause its no real
pm, even if running from processor ring 0.
and the politics behind that is a completly different, you know it.
locking safe pages in virtual menory has pgp already done...?

>
> > is there a open counterpart to vmware?
>
> Bochs86.

thx.

>
> > maybe a solution.
>
> It is not a solution.

why?, please let me learn...
please tell me your alternative to smartcards.

>
> Alex
>
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