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Re: [TCLUG:13418] Protest Aftermath



Ben Kochie wrote:
> 
[snip]
> first thing they did was have an engineer study DOS, and how it interacted
> with the bios.  he could look at everything.  but he would not look at any
> code for the compaq bios.. he simply wrote a specification for a clone
> bios, using no actual code.
>
> then a second engineer would look at this specificaton, and actualy write
> the code based on that spec.  several things had to be "just right" with
> this 2nd person.  they had to have no knowlage of IBM systems, they could
> only know about x86 assembly, but not in the context of IBM.

I wonder if a similar technique could be used in this situation or not. 
I imagine there would be some way to do it, but it may be difficult. 
The first person would either have to hand the second person a list of
all the keys or give the second an algorithm for finding the keys (if I
understand things correctly).  I guess I need to do more research on how
it would actually work..

Also, it is possible that someone is working on this right now, in a
'clean-room' manner.  I hope so, at least..

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