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The following archive was created by hippie-mail 7.98617-22 on Sat Apr 10 1999 - 01:10:55
David Honig (honig@sprynet.com)
Wed, 05 Aug 1998 09:40:53 -0700
At 03:29 PM 8/4/98 -0500, William H. Geiger III wrote:
>Perhaps I am getting too cynical in my old age but there are no big
>electronics shops that I would trust to build crypto hardware. They are
>all too dependent on government contracts.
>
What would it take, if anything? Full access to the VHDL and
test code, FPGA config or GDSII layouts,
plus randomly-sampled production chips stripped
and reverse-engineered by skeptical third parties?
Maybe Synopsis has hidden code in their tools
to recognize Feistel structures and hides embedded oscillators that leak
information...
The following archive was created by hippie-mail 7.98617-22 on Sat Apr 10 1999 - 01:10:55