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The following archive was created by hippie-mail 7.98617-22 on Sat Apr 10 1999 - 01:10:55
bram (bram@gawth.com)
Wed, 5 Aug 1998 15:19:15 -0700 (PDT)
On Wed, 5 Aug 1998, David Honig wrote:
> 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?
Yep.
Not a big deal for something mass-produced in the millions, which will
happen eventually.
-Bram
The following archive was created by hippie-mail 7.98617-22 on Sat Apr 10 1999 - 01:10:55