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Eventually we’ll see cryptographic attestation of open source binaries on our phones. Until then, all popular phones will run closed source software, and it wil
by new_realist 5y ago
Eventually we’ll see cryptographic attestation of open source binaries on our phones. Until then, all popular phones will run closed source software, and it will be necessary to trust the vendor. Even then, the vendor may also be the chip maker. Apple would do well to look at sourcing an independent chip vendor for their on-device enclaves. That would give them a trust advantage over Android phones.
- fastball 5y ago> Eventually This is far from a given.
- mulmen 5y agohttp://users.ece.cmu.edu/~ganger/712.fall02/papers/p761-thompson.pdf http://users.ece.cmu.edu/~ganger/712.fall02/papers/p761-thom... I don't believe this is a technology problem. This is a legislative problem. We (well, some of us) have the Bill of Rights and the justice system for a reason. We need to codify who owns our data (we do) and what third parties can do with it (nothing unless we say they can, individually). LEO can't do a damn thing unless they have probable cause. This dragnet BS needs to stop. We are absolutely empowered to change the rules to suit us.
- mschuster91 5y ago> Apple would do well to look at sourcing an independent chip vendor for their on-device enclaves. That would give them a trust advantage over Android phones. They are designing all of the critical chips (SoC and crypto/enclave) themselves already, TSMC only manufactures them - and if there is one company capable to verify that the chips that TSMC produce actually match the designs, it's Apple.
- tremon 5y agoWhat makes you think cryptographic attestation will favor open source binaries? Don't you think it's much more likely that cryptographic attestation will tilt the field even more in favor closed-source binaries, given who hold the keys to everyone's kingdom?