Comment Re:Use encryption regularly and casually (Score 3) 244
Do you also recommend that all cars be built like tanks, able to withstand a 60 mph crash?
The point is that while it's a worthy goal to encrypt everything for the heck of it, it is not cost effective. Just like it is not cost effective to install two-inch armor plating and internal gel padding on cars, even though it would cut automotive fatality rates by 90%.
As a security expert, you know that encryption is EXPENSIVE. The only way to bring down the cost of custom encryption devices is commoditization. Just like awesome 3-D graphics has fallen within the reach of the masses due to commoditization (anybody remember the $15K+ Elsa & E&H cards that rendered 50K triangles/sec? It wasn't that long back). You basically want a DES (or, more likely, AES) encryption chip on each motherboard.
For this to happen, we need the following:
1) A publicly accepted AES standard. All AES standards require hardware implementations, and I believe all the final proposed candidates have efficient hardware implementations.
2) A cheap chip (or, even better, build it into the mobo chipset).
3) A well-defined API to this device. I assume 2 and 3 will go hand-in-hand.
4) Intel or VIA (through Asus, Abit & others) to buy into this and start building it on their chipset. Alternatively, Once one manufacturer does it, all the others will, too. It's just too big a competitive advantage.
The point is that while it's a worthy goal to encrypt everything for the heck of it, it is not cost effective. Just like it is not cost effective to install two-inch armor plating and internal gel padding on cars, even though it would cut automotive fatality rates by 90%.
As a security expert, you know that encryption is EXPENSIVE. The only way to bring down the cost of custom encryption devices is commoditization. Just like awesome 3-D graphics has fallen within the reach of the masses due to commoditization (anybody remember the $15K+ Elsa & E&H cards that rendered 50K triangles/sec? It wasn't that long back). You basically want a DES (or, more likely, AES) encryption chip on each motherboard.
For this to happen, we need the following:
1) A publicly accepted AES standard. All AES standards require hardware implementations, and I believe all the final proposed candidates have efficient hardware implementations.
2) A cheap chip (or, even better, build it into the mobo chipset).
3) A well-defined API to this device. I assume 2 and 3 will go hand-in-hand.
4) Intel or VIA (through Asus, Abit & others) to buy into this and start building it on their chipset. Alternatively, Once one manufacturer does it, all the others will, too. It's just too big a competitive advantage.
