Date: Mon, 17 Apr 1995 13:41:48 -0500 (GMT-0500) From: "Serge A. Babkin" <babkin@hq.icb.chel.su> To: hosokawa@mt.cs.keio.ac.jp (HOSOKAWA Tatsumi) Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: support for Xircom PCMCIA Ethernet adapters? Message-ID: <199504171841.NAA02614@hq.icb.chel.su> In-Reply-To: <199504170522.OAA13653@remington.mt.cs.keio.ac.jp> from "HOSOKAWA Tatsumi" at Apr 17, 95 02:22:19 pm
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> I heard that the president of Xircom hates free software by > philosophycal reasons. They protect device driver from > reverse-engineering by encrypting the drivers, and I heard that they ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ But how ? IMO the Unix driver is an object file that can't be encrypted itself and probably can't contain the encrypted part decryptable by xxinit(). > won't give us any hardware information without exclusive contracts. Do they have a driver for SCO ? Decompiling of SCO drivers isn't very difficult because SCO's optimizer is bad (and often isn't used at all) and disassembler is included in the Development System. Serge Babkin ! (babkin@hq.icb.chel.su) ! Headquarter of Joint Stock Commercial Bank "Chelindbank" ! Chelyabinsk, Russia
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