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

Bill Cox waywardgeek at gmail.com
Tue Dec 24 21:00:06 EST 2013


It's not publically documented, but I hear TSMC added extra transistors to
some Xilinx FPGAs, and the last I heard, no one had figured out what they
were for.


On Tue, Dec 24, 2013 at 2:43 AM, ianG <iang at iang.org> wrote:

> On 23/12/13 19:20 PM, Jerry Leichter wrote:
>
>  ...  And everyone is trying to reverse-engineer everyone else's designs.
>>  All the underpinnings are there.  And various parts of the US military and
>> security establishment are quite aware - have, in fact, talked publicly
>> about - the problem of "spiked" chips making it into their supply chains.
>>
>
>
> Aha.  So, are there any case studies of this actually happening?  This
> might shed light on the RDRAND question.  If we had a documented case of
> (say) the Chinese slipping spiked chips in to one of the hot USAF toys,
> then we'd have some sense of how likely this is.
>
>
>    Then what?
>>>
>> Yet another arms race.
>>
>
>
> Papers, conferences, budgets, hype, FUD, gosh.
>
>
> iang
>
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