paranoia thrill (was Re: Less OT: Here's a Solaris crypto acceleration branch to try.)
Scott Bennett
bennett at cs.niu.edu
Sun Oct 18 07:49:15 UTC 2009
All the discussion the past week or two on this list regarding use of
various cryptographic hardware has prompted some questions in my mind.
1) Has anyone on this list who is fluent in the microcode of any
of those processors perused a copy of the source microcode for any
of them that have been discussed here?
That question, of course, leads to
2) If the answer to 1) is yes, can that person or persons give us
an assessment of the risk of any back doors being present in any
of those processors?
Scott Bennett, Comm. ASMELG, CFIAG
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