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Yes. Unfortunately, it's a double-edged sword. The same technology is needed for the FOSS community to create secure hardware.
by segfaultbuserr 7y ago
Yes. Unfortunately, it's a double-edged sword. The same technology is needed for the FOSS community to create secure hardware.
- snvzz 7y agoSecurity through obscurity? Nah.
- loeg 7y agoThis was security through a cryptographic design. It was just a broken design. If you consider confidential symmetric or privkeys "obscurity," sure, all crypto is obscurity.
- snvzz 7y agoThere's no need to encrypt the keys as you hardcode them into the FPGA, if you control the hardware as you do this. I certainly don't see how anything FOSS would be affected, and would appreciate concrete examples.
- johncolanduoni 7y agoThis mechanism also included an HMAC, responsible for authenticating the bitstream. That's useful even if the bitstream is public knowledge.