[OLPC-devel] Secure BIOS on the OLPC

Ivan Krstić krstic at solarsail.hcs.harvard.edu
Tue Aug 29 08:09:34 EDT 2006


Drew Van Zandt wrote:
> Not to sound paranoid (though I suspect I am in this case) but what if
> rather than a key compromise it's a crypto compromise

I'm looking into combining two digital signature systems, which would
largely remove that risk. Code size is the only current constraint.

> Now a group pools computing power (or quantum computing becomes
> reality)

Defending against quantum computing is *really* not part of the threat
model :)

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