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If the verilog to the chip isn't open, you can't trust it. Stallman is dangerously wrong on this point.
by BrainInAJar 9y ago
If the verilog to the chip isn't open, you can't trust it. Stallman is dangerously wrong on this point.
- mschuster91 9y agoSomewhere you have to externalize trust. What use is the open HDL code for a chip if you cannot be sure someone down in the manufacturing chain hasn't... modified it? Certainly this kind of attack is not your average script kiddy but nation-level instead, but I wouldn't put it past the NSA to pull this off.
- BrainInAJar 9y agoCorrect, you do need to externalize trust somewhere, but the Richard Stallman level of "chips are ok but firmware is not" is not the correct place for it.
- SkyMarshal 9y agoIf only we could checksum the commercial hardware and compare it to a reference implementation checksum.
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