>But in a world where there are known, novel attacks against the integrity of microchips that would make it difficult to verify even in the presence of microsco

>But in a world where there are known, novel attacks against the integrity of microchips that would make it difficult to verify even in the presence of microscope images of a decapped chip, I'm not sure if this really gives us that much reassurance that the chip does what it says I find myself saying this a lot lately but I really think that stuff like this is going to lead us to chip fabs being national strategic industries in the short/medium term future.