At the end of the day, trust is still required. For example, if you use Bitcoin, you're trusting the people that wrote the code and the libraries it linked to a

At the end of the day, trust is still required. For example, if you use Bitcoin, you're trusting the people that wrote the code and the libraries it linked to and the people that ran the server you downloaded it from, and you're trusting that Koblitz didn't put a backdoor into the ECC somehow. I could go on for a while here but I think this describes the basic idea. You can change the level of trust required or who you're trusting but not the mere requirement of it. I've met some of the people working on this at Intel and I do have confidence that this isn't some conspiracy, I do think they have the intention of improving the crypto space with projects like this.