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To: Paul Fiondella who wrote (76994)	3/22/1999 11:35:00 AM
From: Paul Fiondella	Respond to of 186894

Intel CPU ID image problem --- more solutions From the NYTIMES article about Novell's Digital Me: "Novell...plans to make the end-user, or client, portion of the software freely available under so-called open source terms, in the hope that other software developers will expand the market for Digital Me by building compatibility into ..." The way I see it, Intel could take Digital Me and turn it into a software client that boots up with the system. The program would then "take charge" of the CPU ID information and guard it from access by any other program. The user could then use the encrypted CPU ID as the login to the Digital Me identity vault. In this way the CPU ID becomes a plus rather than a minus for Intel. The key here is having a piece of software that locks itself into memory at boot up and prevents any other program from accessing the CPU ID. My technical knowledge is somewhat dated with regard to OS and CPU technology. Intel however can probably solve this problem in a heartbeat. Does anyone know who is responsible at Intel for writing the software to "hide" the CPU ID?