[Cryptography] "‘The intelligence coup of the century’"

Phillip Hallam-Baker phill at hallambaker.com
Wed Feb 12 17:41:40 EST 2020


The other dimension of the puzzle is to ask why this material is being
declassified and why now.

I rather suspect that the Huawei situation may be the answer. Suddenly this
is 'a game that two might play' as the Duke of Wellington remarked turning
down Cochrane's proposal for developing chemical warfare capabilities.

The problem isn't just China or Huawei either. Cisco was hit after the
Snowden papers were released.

How do we provide an assurance that a device hasn't been compromised at the
firmware or the circuit level?

I believe threshold cryptography may provide part of an answer.
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