Virtuallizing Palladium

[Sunder]

Probably not worth emulating a Pentium4 in Java, however, there is bochs
to start from.  I don't think it does P4 emulation yet, but open source,
yadda, yadda, cypherpunks write code, yadda, yadda. :)

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On Thu, 11 Jul 2002, Albion Zeglin wrote:

> Similar to DeCSS, only one Palladium chip needs to be reverse engineered and
> it's key(s) broken to virtualize the machine.  Simulate a Pentium VI in Java and
> all extant code could be accessed.  Similarly, is Microsoft's signing keys were
> cracked  then any code could be signed.
> 
> If the software needs a real-time connection to the internet though, then
> protection could be built into it.  Laptop applications would be vulnerable
> until we have pervasive wireless connection.
> 
> How many bits do you think MS will use for the keys?
> 
> Albion.