On 3 Feb 2007, at 15:50, Stroller wrote: > ... > Gutman says "twenty years ago, in their work on the ABYSS security > module, IBM researchers concluded that the use of encrypted buses > as a protection mechanism was impractical" and when I look up my > thesaurus to describe this statement I come up with antonyms for > insighful such as "obtuse", "vacuous" and "vapid". Well, duh! Of > course encrypted buses were impractical on am Amiga or a 68000 > Macintosh II. Those things had like 7mhz processors and cost > hundreds of thousands of pounds - nowadays ISPs give away routers > with 200mhz processors for free when you subscribe to their service. Correction: Of course encrypted buses were impractical on _an_ Amiga or a 68000 Macintosh II. Those things had like 7mhz processors and cost hundreds _or_ thousands of pounds. Stroller.