on vedaal's laptop design ...
[5] marry the drive to the motherboard so that removing the drive
to another computer would cause the drive to self destruct.
[6] design the drive as a secondary only never bootable drive;
it's sister drive would carry the O/S and detect any O/S
tampering; the data drive would use non standard
logical and physical architecture to require specialized
drivers in order to be accessed, i.e., no generic access.
[7] design the drive to fail if physically opened or probed.
[8] design the drive to be not probable by any form of hands off
electronic eavesdropping.
[9] remove dependency of need [4] destruct activation by any human.
[10] destruct the drive immediately if the smart card is yanked out
improperly; probably removal should be almost equally brief, example:
Ctrl+x, Ctrl+y,Ctrl+z, where x, y, and z are user configurable.
[11] find financing for this technology.
gerry
P.S.: "Cryptonomicon", Neal Stephenson, ISBN: 9780060512804; ISBN10:
0060512806;
http://www.harpercollins.com/books/9780060512804/Cryptonomicon/index.aspx
The "... crypto-hacker grandson, Randy" character, "is attempting to
create ... a
place where encrypted data can be stored and exchanged free of
repression and scrutiny";
there are some interesting laptop related ideas in the novel; also,
the book uses in
its plot a deck of cards for passing encrypted messages back and forth
undetected;
there is also an appendix that describes the algorithm for using the
deck of cards;
that appendix and algorithm design was created by Bruce Schnier,
example:
http://www.jera.com/solitaire/ "Solitaire for KJava home page";
especially see
http://www.schneier.com/solitaire.html "The Solitaire Encryption
Algorithm", version 1.2, 5/26/99.
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