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CSI 2008 Redux
From: "Dave Aitel" <dave.aitel () gmail com>
Date: Sat, 22 Nov 2008 08:03:28 -0500
For TQBF and similar food people who twitter about cooking but should be twittering about chemistry like this: :> "Why Fries Taste So Good" http://www.rense.com/general7/whyy.htm CSI is a big conference - aimed not towards hackers but to IT managers. Nevertheless it's interesting to gauge the speakers on their personalities sometimes more than their tech. Steve Hanna [1], while ostensibly talking about trusted computing seemed upset at the current US administration's choices for the use of technology, which was an undercurrent in the conference (held in DC). But not having a global PKI system (a.k.a. Palladium, NGTGB, or Trusted Computing, the group Steve works on) is a good way to make sure governments or large corporations don't abuse it, you know? After that he went on to say that even with Trusted Computing, NAC still has an important place for access control, which seemed to veer into confusing all the OSI layers. If you can literally cryptographically attest to the code running on a workstation, why do you need network access control? And I don't understand why you need a trusted computing chip if you decide to trust your hypervisor in the first place. Trusting the hypervisor instead of a public key on a chip from Dell makes a lot more sense. It's more configurable in a user-friendly way, and less configurable in a RIAA/Big Brother friendly way. -dave [1] http://www.networkworld.com/power/2006/122506-most-powerful-people-hanna.html
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