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It does, but as far as I've understood, FPGA's are much simpler and more regular so hiding backdoors into those would be harder than hiding one into a hardware
by ent 6y ago
It does, but as far as I've understood, FPGA's are much simpler and more regular so hiding backdoors into those would be harder than hiding one into a hardware cpu.
- CyberRabbi 6y agoIs the hardware synthesizer / bitstream generator open source?
- aDfbrtVt 6y agoThe Xilinx chip is mostly(fully?) supported by project X-Ray + Yosys.
- GeorgeTirebiter 6y agoUltimately, we have to build our own chips. In the coming decade, getting a custom chip built will be on the same level as getting a PCB done 20 years ago. That brings many other concerns, such as slipping some snooping logic onto a corner of a chip, which is activated only when some 2048-bit string is sent to wake it up. Therefore, even when we have a Chip House build our chip, we're still going to have to knock the tops off and do something similar to what Ken Shirriff does https://www.righto.com/ https://www.righto.com/ to make sure there are no 'extra' circuits. Trust is Hard. https://www.win.tue.nl/~aeb/linux/hh/thompson/trust.html https://www.win.tue.nl/~aeb/linux/hh/thompson/trust.html