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> There's no computer equivalent to requiring all ammonium nitrate sellers to report sales. Say, perhaps, every processor had a 2nd processor attached, that wo
by jasonjayr 9y ago
> There's no computer equivalent to requiring all ammonium nitrate sellers to report sales.
Say, perhaps, every processor had a 2nd processor attached, that would run code not modifiable by the owner? With little public information about it's full capabilities? That had full unfettered access to the primary processor, it's memory, and I/O Ports? And insist that it's mandatory to the function of the primary processor?
Sounds a lot like Intel'S ME?
- mikeash 9y agoYep, but you're not going to do something like that with all the embedded CPUs out there, and they're still quite capable of crypto.
- rtkwe 9y agoHow does the ME determine if I’m running an encryption algorithm using a legal compromised key vs running illegal encryption with a non compromised key? And more importantly how does this ME turned spy actually determine what is encryption and what isn’t? It’d have to determine on the fly if all the operations on your computer were encryption-like because otherwise just tweaking the code so the outputs are identical but the instructions and memory access are vastly different would completely bypass the ME-snitch.