Protecting Source Code

Lulu of the Lotus-Eaters mertz at gnosis.cx
Fri May 9 12:28:16 EDT 2003


"John Wilson" <tug at wilson.co.uk> wrote previously:
|There are several solutions. One that I have used is the Dallas
|Semiconductor Crypto iButton (http://www.ibutton.com/ibuttons/java.html).
|The private key is held on the tamper proof token and *never* appears in the
|memory of the computer. The decryption occurs on the iButton and the
|cleartext comes back.

And the cleartext is stored on... oh, the memory of the computer?!

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