impdmnt2Prgrss

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   by impdmnt2Prgrss 10y ago

   Looking at my pay check tells me that Michigan does not pay more than said agencies :).
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   by impdmnt2Prgrss 10y ago

   You should read the paper, all of this was considered.
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   by impdmnt2Prgrss 10y ago

   There is a crucial difference between hardware development and software development that you are missing: hardware has several stages of development/implementation that spans several parties only connected by business contracts. If you
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   by impdmnt2Prgrss 10y ago

   Yes, A2 doesn't require physical access.
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   by impdmnt2Prgrss 10y ago

   You made some extremely good insights... ;)
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   by impdmnt2Prgrss 10y ago

   If a graduate student and a postdoc can do it...
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   by impdmnt2Prgrss 10y ago

   To be precise, what was implemented was a CPU backdoor, but the attack applies to all integrated circuits.
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   by impdmnt2Prgrss 10y ago

   It would be very complex to fill the entire chip with cells---whose functionality mattered, otherwise we the attacker could replace them without the defender noticing---and get them wired in to the rest of the chip. There is a tradeoff bet
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   by impdmnt2Prgrss 10y ago

   The paper uses two capacitors that share charge to get the same effect as your code. In effect Cunit (the smaller capacitor) is the increment (i.e., counter++), while Cmain (the larger capacitor) acts as the count-holding variable (i.e., c