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From: andy@Gang-of-Four.Stanford.EDU (Andy Freeman)
Newsgroups: comp.arch,comp.edu,comp.misc
Subject: Re: built-in security features
Keywords: computer security, network security
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Date: 10 Jan 89 01:28:26 GMT
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In article <8846@nsc.nsc.com> roger@nsc.nsc.com (Roger Thompson) writes:
>In short,  if your system has security requirements what could
>we do to make your life vastly easier.

The world does change.  Some time before the IBM-PC was introduced,
"someone" suggested anti- software piracy features to Intel.  The
basic idea was to have dealers trap-door encrypt code, using a
processor-specific number, before delivering it to their customers.
The cpu chip would then decrypt the code in real-time and execute it,
but only if the dealer had encrypted it for that particular chip.

Intel's response was that they sold chips and that software piracy
helped them sell more.

-andy
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