Re: disabling Intel PSN

Kevin Waterson (kevin@oceania.net)
Fri, 17 Dec 1999 09:33:29 +1100


nil wrote:!

>
> Some of us USE the PSN for good and not evil. I hacked ssh to append
> the PSN of all cpus in my system in ascending order to my passphrase.
> That's an extra 24 bytes of passphrase that I don't have to type but
> still keeps me feeling that much more secure. If my passphrase is
> somehow compromised, I'm ok unless someone has physical access to my
> machine. With physical access of course, all bets are off.

How long till the script kiddies can fake a PSN

Kevin

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