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

[Ben Laurie]

On 29 August 2016 at 15:14, Allen <allenpmd at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 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.

Yes.

https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/research/security/ctsrd/beri/ +
https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/research/security/ctsrd/cheri/