Lpc2000

Jaya, apologies for the implied attack on your personal credibility: as 
has been pointed out, I should have checked beforehand. 

As for the arguments, I really don't see anyhing other than a claim 
("CRP is insecure") with no supporting evidence (as in a mechanism that 
might be used to overcome it). A set of "facts" that may or may not be 
either true or relevant does not an argument make.

I'm well aware that there is no such thing as absolute security. I do 
think though that you do your cause no good at all by labouring points 
that can't really be addressed given the information available. It's 
impossible to do a full review of security threats on the information 
publicly available: making (to my mind invalid) assumptions 
about "hidden" commands etc. builds any such analysis on sand: it just 
won't stand up.

I think Philips are right not to expose details of their IC's internals 
to an open forum, or to comment further. They've made certain 
statements about how and why the parts are as they are which, in the 
absence of any evidence to the contrary, should be taken at face value. 
If required, I'm sure they would share appropriate additional 
information with concenred customers under NDA. 

If you can't get the degree of re-assurance you feel you need, either 
based on publicly available information, or through an NDA with 
Philips, then you can make your own mind up and go elsewhere. There's 
little point though in berating them continuously on this forum when 
they've absolutely no reason to respond further. As I said, I think 
you're doing yourself no good at all in persisting: I for one began to 
assume you were way out there on the crank side of life, rather than an 
academic with a record deserving some serious respect.

Apologies again for the implied questioning of your credentials on my 
last post: it was way out of line.

Regards
Brendan

--- In lpc2000@yahoogroups.com, "jayasooriah" <jayasooriah@...> wrote:
>
> Good try Brendan, but not good enough.  Look at the arguments, and if
> you cannot fault the argument, just accept it rather than faulting the
> person who puts forward the argument.
> 
> [Apologies if this post comes up twice, my first attempt via email
> seems to have failed.]
> 
> --- In lpc2000@yahoogroups.com, "brendanmurphy37" <brendan.murphy@>
> wrote:
> > One final point, Jaya, you've implied that you work as an academic: 
> > are you willing to say where?
>