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From: Crutcher Dunnavant <crutcher@datastacks.com>
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++ 07/08/01 15:17 +0100 - Alan Cox:
> > A relatively cheap way might be a custom pci
> > card with a self-destruct RAM bank for
> > storing the decryption keys.  Opening the 
> > safe cause the card to zero the RAM.  
> 
> IBM sell crypto PCI cards with anti tamper environments, they have
> development drivers on their oss site too

Ohh. Some college buddies and I were considering the difficulty involved from
making a pci card with an onboard giger counter and radiatian source (say, from
a smoke detector) wrapped up in some lead.

Sure, there are simpler ways to build chaotic circuits, but a radioactive
peripheral is cool!

-- 
Crutcher        <crutcher@datastacks.com>
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