[118489] in Cypherpunks
Re: Postulates for "trusted"/"maliced" soft and hard ware
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Sunder)
Wed Sep 29 18:33:20 1999
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Date: Wed, 29 Sep 1999 18:18:16 -0400
From: Sunder <sunder@brainlink.com>
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To: Gary Jeffers <jeffers@htc.net>
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Reply-To: Sunder <sunder@brainlink.com>
Yes, sorry for the late post. You can be sure of the SPARC CPU's - because
they're open sourced. search around www.sun.com. The SPARC V8 cores are
available to all. Building them however, requires a fab. Got a fab in your
garage? Hmmm, didn't think so. :^) But don't feel bad, I don't either.
Still, it's nice to know. :)
> Gary Jeffers wrote:
>
> POSTULATES FOR "TRUSTED"/"MALICED" SOFT AND HARD WARE
> Question?: Is there currently such a thing as a cpu chip of
> which we can be sure of its architecture?
> Could there be in theory? If you had a trusted one, could you
> use it to test another cpu chip?
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