1995-11-21 - Re: Virus attacks on PGP

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From: frantz@netcom.com (Bill Frantz)
To: Thomas E Zerucha <zerucha@shell.portal.com>
Message Hash: 03dab17d260face6645dd59e64370de6a2191e2cfafb984ba93a3fa1ca02e50d
Message ID: <199511210732.XAA04912@netcom18.netcom.com>
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UTC Datetime: 1995-11-21 08:00:58 UTC
Raw Date: Tue, 21 Nov 1995 16:00:58 +0800

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From: frantz@netcom.com (Bill Frantz)
Date: Tue, 21 Nov 1995 16:00:58 +0800
To: Thomas E Zerucha <zerucha@shell.portal.com>
Subject: Re: Virus attacks on PGP
Message-ID: <199511210732.XAA04912@netcom18.netcom.com>
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At 14:52 11/20/95 -0800, Thomas E Zerucha wrote:
>... The code can also be cross compiled 
>and burned onto a CDROM which would make it difficult to infect.

Certainly having PGP run from a CDROM or other read-only device would be a
big help.  Even better would be to have all the privileged code also run
from a read-only device.


Bill Frantz

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• 1995-11-21 (Tue, 21 Nov 1995 16:00:58 +0800) - Re: Virus attacks on PGP - frantz@netcom.com (Bill Frantz)
  • 1995-11-21 (Tue, 21 Nov 1995 21:51:32 +0800) - Re: Virus attacks on PGP - SINCLAIR DOUGLAS N <sinclai@ecf.toronto.edu>
    • 1995-11-21 (Wed, 22 Nov 1995 02:17:43 +0800) - Re: Virus attacks on PGP - John Lull <lull@acm.org>
      • 1995-11-21 (Wed, 22 Nov 1995 03:07:56 +0800) - Re: Virus attacks on PGP - Ian Whalley <ian@virusbtn.com>