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

[J.M. Porup]

On Wed, Jul 12, 2017 at 03:37:06PM -0400, Jerry Leichter wrote:
> > 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

Have you not seen the cover of Philip Agee's 1975 whistleblowing
memoir?

https://www.amazon.com/Inside-Company-Diary-Philip-Agee/dp/0883730286/

methinks the CIA solved this problem during the Ford administration.

jmp

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