[117879] in Cypherpunks
Re: chips, trust, etc.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (phelix@vallnet.com)
Tue Sep 14 01:51:47 1999
From: phelix@vallnet.com
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Date: Tue, 14 Sep 1999 05:30:41 GMT
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On 13 Sep 1999 15:10:48 -0500, Tim May <tcmay@got.net> wrote:
>>At 01:05 AM 9/13/99 -0700, Gary Jeffers wrote:
>
>>
>>> Would it be practical for a huge State to force CPU chip
>>>manufacturers to design their chips with backdoors?
>>
>>There are a lot of people at the Fabs who need green cards.
>>
>>-Kipple
>
>Paranoid, ignorant bullshit.
>
>Designs don't work this way. Fabs don't change designs. Even designers who
>need green cards don't get to change designs.
While I certainly agree, I wonder if someone at the Fab could change the
recipe in some way that would introduce a subtle bias in a random number
generator. A little extra dopant is all it takes.
