[Cryptography] open hardware as a defence against state-level attacks
Nico Williams
nico at cryptonector.com
Mon Jan 12 12:59:14 EST 2015
On Sun, Jan 11, 2015 at 11:49:20PM -0500, grarpamp wrote:
> Snowden tells both these things above, yet few move far enough towards
> real countermeasures, thus allowing complacency, acceptance, and reversion
> to past states to set in.
Perhaps someday we'll see something like small, cheap, portable 3D
printers, but for ICs. Such printers would make it easier to implement
countermeasures. Of course a printer could be compromised and look for
patterns in which to insert backdoors, but that might well prove easy to
defeat.
Nico
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