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From: "Henning P. Schmiedehausen" <hps@intermeta.de>
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Subject: Re: Crusoe's persistent translation on linux?
Date: Fri, 20 Jun 2003 14:08:00 +0000 (UTC)
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Xavier Bestel <xavier.bestel@free.fr> writes:

>Did you just write: "the Crusoe has special backdoors built-in which
>would allow a userspace program to takeover the machine, and Transmeta
>choose security through obscurity to avoid this problem" ?
>Nice call for crackers :)

God (and the NSA) gave you key signing protocols to avoid that. 

The Microcode upload for the Intel processors is even well documented.

I have yet to see someone putting out "enhanced microcode files for
the P<xxx> processor".

	Regards
		Henning

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