NODE 76d1edfcRe: Tamper-Resistant Software from INTEL
Alan Olsen <alano@teleport.com>Fri, 27 Sep 1996 16:57:57 +0800
At 07:57 PM 9/26/96 -0500, snow wrote:
>Mr. Guthery
>> Has anybody heard of tamper-resistant software in general or a method
>> for tamper-resistant software from Intel in particular?
>
> What do you mean by "tamper resistant"?
It means that if you do *ANYTHING* to try and adjust, modify, and/or
configure the software, it no longer functions. Sadly, Microsoft has beat
them to the punch on this technology.
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NODE 699cb009Re: Tamper-Resistant Software from INTEL
geeman <geeman@best.com>Fri, 27 Sep 1996 19:44:05 +0800
>
> It means that if you do *ANYTHING* to try and adjust, modify, and/or
> configure the software, it no longer functions. Sadly, Microsoft has beat
> them to the punch on this technology.
>
>
As far as I know, it has raised the bar, so to speak, but
that's all. It may have raised it pretty far, but as we
know there's nothing you can't do on untrustable hardware.
Which Microsoftware are you referring to, BTW?
gee.
man.