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> If we are talking about the flight control software, the airplane must have the keys to boot clearly My laptop doesn't have the keys to decrypt its own hard
by tsuraan 12y ago
> If we are talking about the flight control software, the airplane must have the keys to boot clearly
My laptop doesn't have the keys to decrypt its own hard drive; it boots to initrd and waits for my smart card, which does the decryption. I would imagine the military can do better.
- anologwintermut 12y agoTrue. On the other hand, the military may need to be able to reboot the thing remotely/automatically, in which case it's possible they don't want to risk having to send the keys first.
- rbanffy 12y agoIf I were to design such a system, booting to full functionality would require human intervention prior to launch, but would allow a reboot to a separate partition with enough functionality to fly the drone back to base. Data, as was pointed before, would be asymmetrically encrypted and would require a separate key that would never reach the drone.
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