[Cryptography] Email is unsecurable

[Benjamin Kreuter]

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On Wed, 27 Nov 2013 20:00:31 -0500
Arnold Reinhold <agr at me.com> wrote:

> We need to ask the question: what will it take today and in the
> future to get hardware we can trust?

The ability to fab our own CPUs in our homes, and to do so using
minimal computing power (i.e. something you could bootstrap from CMOS
logic). I would not hold my breath, and this is obviously something
that only experts would be able to do.  A possible compromise would be
FPGAs, but only if we had a good way to thwart backdoors (e.g. if we
could randomize the logic in some way).

Ben



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