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

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From: SINCLAIR DOUGLAS N <sinclai@ecf.toronto.edu>
To: frantz@netcom.com (Bill Frantz)
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Message ID: <95Nov21.083447edt.10061@cannon.ecf.toronto.edu>
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UTC Datetime: 1995-11-21 13:51:32 UTC
Raw Date: Tue, 21 Nov 1995 21:51:32 +0800

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From: SINCLAIR  DOUGLAS N <sinclai@ecf.toronto.edu>
Date: Tue, 21 Nov 1995 21:51:32 +0800
To: frantz@netcom.com (Bill Frantz)
Subject: Re: Virus attacks on PGP
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> 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.

Seeing as PGP is quite small the simplest and cheapest read-only device
would be a write-protected floppy disk.

Could a virus write to a write-protected disk?  I'm not sure if the
protection is done in the BIOS or the drive hardware.

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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>