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Researchers Spot Silicon-Level Hardware Trojans in Chips
- andreareina 3y agoResearchers develop techniques to spot hardware trojans.
- exabrial 3y agoSeems like two things are in direct conflict: On one hand, a company needs to protect it's IP and prevent China from outright copying it's designs and selling without the R&D cost attached. On the other hand, but publishing it's designs, it can be verified as safe by anyone.
- ElfinTrousers 3y agoBy publishing their designs, anyone can verify the _published_ design as safe. That doesn't necessarily mean that the chips that are actually manufactured are according to that design.
- andreareina 3y agoThe idea of these techniques is that the physical chips can be compared against the reference designs. Though I didn't see whether they're able to detect changes in behaviour due to doping.
- ElfinTrousers 3y agoI assume that most or all of the common CPUs you can buy today include backdoors inserted at the request of one intelligence agency or another.