Dell to Add Security Chip to PCs

[Tyler Durden]

Ah. That's a good sanity check. Like I said I'm by no means an expert but I 
considered it highly unlikely they'd use a dedicated crypto ASIC in this 
context.

-TD

>From: pgut001 at cs.auckland.ac.nz (Peter Gutmann)
>To: camera_lumina at hotmail.com, 
>cryptography at metzdowd.com,cypherpunks at al-qaeda.net, rah at shipwright.com
>Subject: RE: Dell to Add Security Chip to PCs
>Date: Thu, 03 Feb 2005 17:53:22 +1300
>
>"Tyler Durden" <camera_lumina at hotmail.com> writes:
>
> >That "chip"...is it likely to be an ASIC or is there already such a thing 
>as
> >a security network processor? (ie, a cheaper network processor that only
> >handles security apps, etc...)
> >
> >Or could it be an FPGA?
>
>Neither.  Currently they've typically been smart-card cores glued to the
>MB and accessed via I2C/SMB.
>
>Peter.