What's missing is any mention of how fast such a system will be when public-key crytography is implemented on silicon. The system was to secure communication between "the keyboard and processor, and processor and video card." That sounds very slow to me.
The other topic not mentioned is how the system might be integrated with operating systems other than Windows. Ignoring producers of other operating system is not in the best interest of Microsoft. If Microsoft actually expects such a huge project to succeed, they must consider how other operating systems can use the technology.
I was impressed that the story mentioned that (some of ?) the source code will be publicly released. Seems like a step in the right direction.
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University of Illinois at Chicago was able to achieve 6.8Gb/s a few days ago using the UDT protocol .... http://www.ncdm.uic.edu/pressrelease.html
What's missing is any mention of how fast such a system will be
when public-key crytography is implemented on silicon. The system
was to secure communication between "the keyboard and processor, and
processor and video card." That sounds very slow to me.
The other topic not mentioned is how the system might be integrated
with operating systems other than Windows. Ignoring producers of
other operating system is not in the best interest of Microsoft. If
Microsoft actually expects such a huge project to succeed, they must
consider how other operating systems can use the technology.
I was impressed that the story mentioned that (some of ?) the source
code will be publicly released. Seems like a step in the right direction.