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Re: more on malicious hardware
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Allen)
Sun Apr 27 18:33:30 2008
Date: Sat, 26 Apr 2008 13:58:42 -0700
From: Allen <netsecurity@sound-by-design.com>
To: cryptography@metzdowd.com
In-Reply-To: <87zlrgwja8.fsf@snark.cb.piermont.com>
Perry E. Metzger wrote:
> It turns out that the counterfeit chips business is booming:
>
> http://www.eetimes.com/rss/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=207401126
>
> In combination with the news about what as few as 1500 extra gates can
> do, this is especially worrisome.
So when do the contests start by adventuresome minds to see how
*few* gates are needed to compromise a chip's security much like
the self replicating code referenced by Ken Thompson in his paper?
Best,
Allen
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