Obama's secure PDA

Paul Hoffman paul.hoffman at vpnc.org
Mon Jan 26 11:26:24 EST 2009


At 2:49 AM -0500 1/26/09, Ivan Krstiç wrote:
>There are still conflicting reports about whether the hardware is an altered RIM BlackBerry or a different device, though the most likely contender for the latter option appears to be the General Dynamics Sectéra Edge, which features a "trusted [secondary] display" and two buttons used to switch between classified and unclassified operation.

Government Computer News says it is definitely not a BlackBerry. However, GCN's reporters aren't always as good as they should be (or even as good as the regular IT press) on getting their facts straight on security issues.

<http://gcn.com/articles/2009/01/23/obama-gets-super-secure-smartphone.aspx>

I too would like to hear more information on this, particularly the crypto that is known to be used on the Edge.

--Paul Hoffman, Director
--VPN Consortium

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