From: "L. Todd Masco" <cactus@bb.com>
Date: Mon, 29 Aug 94 15:55:51 PDT
To: "David K. Merriman" <merriman@metronet.com>
Subject: Re: Announcing Bellcore's Trusted Software Integrity (Betsi) System
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"David K. Merriman" writes:
> Well, there was that CD-ROM program of a couple months ago that professed to
> be from one of the drive manufacturers (but wasn't) containing some kind of 
> Binary Nasty (tm).  The mfr's finally had to post (far and wide) the fact 
> that it was *not* their program.  The program was posted using a false ID, 
> etc.  Don't know if the Bellcore system would prevent that, but it is *one* 
> example, anyway.

That was Chinon;  The Bellcore system would add nothing that Chinon signing
 their own material themselves would not add, and would reduce the security
 in that everybody would want to get their hands on the Betsi key to
 compromise those gazillion other packages.
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L. Todd Masco  | "Which part of 'shall not be infringed' didn't
cactus@bb.com  |   you understand?"