[7211] in cryptography@c2.net mail archive
Re: NSA back doors in encryption products
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ben Laurie)
Sat May 27 16:13:28 2000
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Date: Sat, 27 May 2000 05:54:55 +0100
From: Ben Laurie <ben@algroup.co.uk>
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To: David Honig <honig@sprynet.com>
Cc: Jim Choate <ravage@einstein.ssz.com>,
Eugene Leitl <eugene.leitl@lrz.uni-muenchen.de>,
Rick Smith <rick_smith@securecomputing.com>,
"Arnold G. Reinhold" <reinhold@world.std.com>,
John Gilmore <gnu@toad.com>, cryptography@c2.net, gnu@cygnus.com
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David Honig wrote:
>
> At 09:54 PM 5/24/00 -0500, Jim Choate wrote:
> >As to inserting a trapdoor in an FPGA, I don't see any reason at all that
> >a trapdoor can't be inserted with the appropriate understanding of the
> >state space and chosing a rare state to trigger your bypass.
>
> Yes but *once* you've verified the RTL (and from them the masks)
> you don't have to worry about some stray applet hosing your security.
> You do with software.
Errr ... you do with an FPGA, surely?
Cheers,
Ben.
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