[Cryptography] eliminating manufacturer's ability to backdoor users

[Tony Arcieri]

On Sun, Feb 21, 2016 at 7:10 AM, Allen <allenpmd at gmail.com> wrote:

> Anyone else have ideas?
>

Yes:

1) Have manufacturers provide a *generic* FPGA
2) Use a framework like Cryptol (http://www.cryptol.net/) to produce
Verilog/VHDL versions of cryptographic ciphers from a *generic* description
3) Cryptographers build specific algorithms in the framework of e.g. Cryptol

Users can now obtain a Cryptol description of any algorithm which they can
compile and load onto an FPGA themselves.

In such a multiparty exchange of cryptographic knowledge, who is at fault
here? (given various complicated local laws)

-- 
Tony Arcieri
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