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Re: [TCLUG:13418] Protest Aftermath
Ben Kochie wrote:
>
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> 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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