Sign in with Facebook
Niels Ferguson’s Followers (11)
Niels Ferguson
More books by Niels Ferguson…
“A friend of ours encountered this problem with his home-built computer long ago. He wrote a BIOS that used a magic value in a particular memory location to determine whether a reset was a cold reboot or a warm reboot. After a while the machine refused to boot after power-up because the memory had learned the magic value, and the boot process therefore treated every reset as a warm reboot. As this did not initialize the proper variables, the boot process failed.
The solution in his case was to swap some memory chips around, scrambling the magic value that the SRAM had learned. For us, it was a lesson to remember: memory retains more data than you think.”
― Cryptography Engineering: Design Principles and Practical Applications
The solution in his case was to swap some memory chips around, scrambling the magic value that the SRAM had learned. For us, it was a lesson to remember: memory retains more data than you think.”
― Cryptography Engineering: Design Principles and Practical Applications
“Cryptography by itself is fairly useless. It has to be part of a much larger system.”
― Cryptography Engineering
― Cryptography Engineering
“Cryptography takes on the role of the lock: it has to distinguish between “good” access and “bad” access. This is much more difficult than just keeping everybody out.”
― Cryptography Engineering
― Cryptography Engineering
Is this you? Let us know. If not, help out and invite Niels to Goodreads.
