Palladium and malware

[Ben Laurie]

Paul Crowley wrote:
> I'm informed that malware authors often go to some lengths to prevent
> their software from being disassembled.  Could they use Palladium for
> this end?  Are there any ways in which the facilities that Palladium
> and TCPA provide could be useful to a malware author who wants to
> frustrate legitimate attempts to understand and defeat their software?

That would depend on what facilities the OS layers on top of 
TCPA/Palladium. Certainly I could believe an OS would exist that would 
simply refuse read access to executables, and Palladium/TCPA could be 
used to encrypt them such that they were inaccessible except under that OS.

So, in short. Yes.

Cheers,

Ben.

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