re off the shelf cheap des keyseach machine in article tom apr amber ssd csd harris com tom ssd csd harris com tom horsley writes this isn t intended to be a flame or anything i am just really curious how to manufacture these things while still maintaining the key escrow security without simply saying trust the manufacturer they won t look without getting into the really thorny questions about reverse engineering and all of that let me just point out that there already exist gate arrays and suchlike that have what s known as a security fuse which can be programmed after you ve verified all other programming this makes it impossible to read out the programming of the device again ignoring the reverse engineering questions speaking from experience here i had to completely reinvent one of my designs some six or seven years ago when the disk file was zapped the backups were all bad and the devices were unreadable because of the security fuses made me appreciate the value of printouts so on this point at least there s not so much worry but whether or not we can get the chips made reliably and securely is really secondary to the question of whether use of the chip is itself likely to be secure methinks robert bickford a hacker is any person who derives joy from rab well sf ca us discovering ways to circumvent limitations rab i recognize that a class of criminals and juvenile delinquents has taken to calling themselves hackers but i consider them irrelevant to the true meaning of the word just as the mafia calls themselves businessmen but nobody pays that fact any attention rab
