[Cryptography] ORWL - The First Open Source, Physically Secure Computer

Allen allenpmd at gmail.com
Mon Aug 29 10:14:24 EDT 2016


>
> 1) Where are the open fabs where I can get a trusted processor design
> fabricated, and at reasonable cost?
> 2) Given the effectiveness of incredibly simple malicious hardware
> additions, some of which are difficult to notice even with a careful
> destructive analysis of the fabricated part, how can I verify that the
> fabricated design is indeed what I expected and consistently so?
>

I wonder if one could build a low-performance, high-cost but secure
processor from an FPGA?  It would seem on the surface to be more difficult
to embed an exploit in an un-programmed FPGA, especially if it had a very
regular structure.
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