Path: ...!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: "Stephen Fuld" Newsgroups: comp.arch Subject: Re: Byte Addressability And Beyond Date: Wed, 5 Jun 2024 16:16:32 -0000 (UTC) Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 23 Message-ID: References: <2024May29.090435@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at> <20240603132227.00004e0f@yahoo.com> <20240605164905.000054da@yahoo.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Date: Wed, 05 Jun 2024 18:16:33 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="61d35cd0bc070ff15be1578b8eb57b77"; logging-data="1100388"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1+loOPYalpy3xLCITSIsU3g5O630IQcwRQ=" User-Agent: XanaNews/1.21-f3fb89f (x86; Portable ISpell) Cancel-Lock: sha1:fLICTUxxqaaGzYzBzM4OpiYM/Ok= Bytes: 2212 Michael S wrote: snip lots of stuff about encryption alternatives > The best, the most secure encryption is an end-to-end encryption. > Which means application-to-application. > It's not that other, "piece-wise" encryption types can't be used, but > if you are serious about privacy you should consider them > insufficient. That's fair. But there are counter arguments like not doing the encryption on a processor that is also executing arbitrary user code makes it more immune from side attacks. -- - Stephen Fuld (e-mail address disguised to prevent spam)