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Re: "Designing and implementing malicious hardware"
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Adam Fields)
Sat Apr 26 12:04:43 2008
Date: Sat, 26 Apr 2008 11:49:43 -0400
From: Adam Fields <cryptography23094893@aquick.org>
To: Karsten Nohl <honk98@web.de>
Cc: Cryptography <cryptography@metzdowd.com>
In-Reply-To: <4812CCA7.9080405@web.de>
On Sat, Apr 26, 2008 at 02:33:11AM -0400, Karsten Nohl wrote:
[...]
> Assuming that hardware backdoors can be build, the interesting question
> becomes how to defeat against them. Even after a particular triggering
> string is identified, it is not clear whether software can be used to
> detect malicious programs. It almost appears as if the processor would
> need a hardware-based virus-scanner or sorts. This scanner could be
> simple as it only has to match known signatures, but would need have
> access to a large number of internal data structures while being
> developed by a completely separate team of designers.
Wouldn't it be fun to assume that these are already present in all
sorts of devices?
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