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Not exactly what you’re asking for, and it has its own problems [0], but the US military has a “trusted foundry program” [1] for sourcing chips. [0] https://se
by chatmasta 7y ago
Not exactly what you’re asking for, and it has its own problems [0], but the US military has a “trusted foundry program” [1] for sourcing chips.
[0] https://semiengineering.com/a-crisis-in-dods-trusted-foundry-program/ https://semiengineering.com/a-crisis-in-dods-trusted-foundry...
[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trusted_Foundry_Program https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trusted_Foundry_Program
- iagovar 7y agoIs there an equivalent of the Trusted program in Europe? I know of a bunch of companies capable of manufacturing chips, like STM, but because of the scattered nature of europe, I don't know how euro militaries handle this issue, specially Airbus.
- ktta 7y agoBeing open source at the chip level, while an admirable goal isn't really required for open source firmware. Most router firmware is linux, that runs on either ARM or MIPS based SoCs. Opening up that code is more than enough to fix any security flaws like these.