PGP source code

[Nexus]

----- Original Message -----
From: "Ben Laurie" <ben@algroup.co.uk>
To: <ukcrypto@chiark.greenend.org.uk>
Sent: Tuesday, September 04, 2001 3:39 PM
Subject: Re: PGP source code
[snip]
> > The MAC address can be trivial to change dependant on your OS.
>
> The MAC address the card generates in Ethernet frames is trivial to
> change. The one burnt into the chip (which is what you'd read) is a
> little trickier :-)

True, I'd have to flash over it or have my own EEPROM installed ;-)
Oh right, silly me - that's the one you would read with the software that
asks the OS isn't it ?
Not that anyone would take the short-cut and use an IP stack call to get
it....
*ahem*

> > How many hardware "dongles" suffer from the same oversight ?   Have
these
> > people never heard of a Logic Analyser or a CRO ?
>
> Of course they have - the question is whether the _buyer_ of the dongle
> has heard of one!

Bugger, didn't think of that - must be why I'm crap at sales ;-)

Cheers,
            JJ