[Cryptography] GHCQ Penetration of Belgacom

Bill Frantz frantz at pwpconsult.com
Thu Dec 18 22:08:52 EST 2014


On 12/18/14 at 1:18 PM, jsd at av8n.com (John Denker) wrote:

>I'm not sure exactly how it would work, but one could imagine
>independent certification laboratories, perhaps like UL.com
>or kaspersky.com.

I think it would be very hard to find a backdoor suggested by 
Norm Hardy. Modify the CPU to detect when two specific floating 
point numbers are multiplied. When they are, execute the next 
instruction in privileged mode.

Cheers - Bill

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