[Cryptography] [FORGED] Attackers will always win, and it's getting worse!

[Jerry Leichter]

> The issues with trusting electronic hardware have become so intractable
> that for some applications it seems that building mechanical cipher
> hardware should be reevaluated.
> 
> No, I am not joking.  :-(
> 
> No significant bandwidth, no easily automated integration with anything,
> not really applicable to any type of data except text, absolutely
> doesn't do public-key encryption ... and is absolutely the only thing
> you know isn't deliberately manufactured to be electronically broken on
> demand.
Who's going to write the first paper on attacking such a device through power analysis of the sounds it makes as it runs?

TANSTAAFL
                                                        -- Jerry