The real problem that https has conspicuously failed to fix

Pete Chown Pete.Chown at skygate.co.uk
Wed Jun 11 09:50:08 EDT 2003


Anonymous wrote:

> The solution to this [key theft by malware] is Palladium (NGSCB).

You could achieve the same protection on any system with decent 
mandatory access controls.  SELinux would be fine, for example.  You 
could have a program like ssh-agent which performs the public key 
operations; you then deny everything else access to the key store.

-- 
Pete


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