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Date:      Mon, 04 Jan 1999 21:44:21 +0100
From:      Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk>
To:        "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@zippy.cdrom.com>
Cc:        Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>, Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>, Tom Bartol <bartol@salk.edu>, current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: New boot blocks for serial console ... 
Message-ID:  <15625.915482661@critter.freebsd.dk>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 04 Jan 1999 12:21:51 PST." <39041.915481311@zippy.cdrom.com> 

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In message <39041.915481311@zippy.cdrom.com>, "Jordan K. Hubbard" writes:
>> They will guarantee that you will not get access to anything in
>> the computer.  Last perimeter will inject 220V (mains) through
>> vital bits of the computer (including your flash disk) if broken.
>
>I'm curious how many codicils there are in their contract about
>"tamper-proof", however.

They are graded like bank safes, "number of hours minimum resistance
to best known state of the art attack", starting at 4 going up to
168 in this somewhat old catalog".

But I think we're getting sidetracked from bootcode here aren't we ?

--
Poul-Henning Kamp             FreeBSD coreteam member
phk@FreeBSD.ORG               "Real hackers run -current on their laptop."
"ttyv0" -- What UNIX calls a $20K state-of-the-art, 3D, hi-res color terminal

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