[Cryptography] Fwd: [IP] 'We cannot trust' Intel and Via's chip-based crypto, FreeBSD developers say

[Bill Frantz]

On 12/17/13 at 5:47 PM, tytso at mit.edu (Theodore Ts'o) wrote:

>Ultimately, if you need to live at that level of paranoia, you'll need
>to build your own CPU out of TTL logic chips --- something which I
>learned how to do when I was a freshman at MIT.  It won't be a
>terribly fast computer, though....

One should be fairly safe using commodity FPGAs and probably get 
a decent improvement in speed. Of course the question is, how 
much speed will be needed? A fair bit for 4096 bit RSA. 
Considerably less for 128 bit AES. Very little for secure random 
source to be read from another CPU.

Cheers - Bill

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