I'm working on influencing security in embedded, e.g., writing and
   designing secure systems (comprehensively, starting with arch & code.)
   It's an educational effort with embedded ISVs and OEMs at every step,
   you can presume the market, if they're thinking of security at all, is
   currently buying into 'fire-walling' and 'obfuscation' approaches.
   There are some interesting groups like We Are the Cavalry working on
   that as well.
   Some fun uses of Raspberry Pi computers as air-gapped PGP / KeyStores
   and Hardware Tor routers. DIY info-theoretic secure communications
   platforms (opto-isolators and so on.)
   On the topic of HWSec, I'm interested in detecting in-sil modification,
   allowing end-users to simply and easily verify their hardware in the
   same way that the OS community has become entranced with 'deterministic
   verifiable builds'.
   -Travis

   On Wed, Apr 27, 2016 at 2:15 PM, Steve Kinney <[1]admin@pilobilus.net>
   wrote:

     Annual token on-topic post:
     Hardware considerations are inherent to the creation and solution of
     practical crypto problems, because good crypto is best solved by
     attacking the platforms it runs on.  The 'internet of things'
     creates a
     massive comms attack surface, also best solved at the platform level
     i.e. signals discipline.  When the scope of a project includes
     non-attribution by 3rd parties, hit and run network access via
     tightly
     controlled hardware is the only thing that can work against a well
     funded State adversary.
     I don't see much about hardware hacking on CPunks. I know that folks
     who
     have worked on digital circuit design and manufacture are lurking
     out
     there, also a bunch of ham radio people. Things they take for
     granted
     are utterly mysterious to lesser mortals, including "computer
     experts"
     focused on software and networking.
     Field tested cheat sheets on security oriented, low tech DIY
     hardware
     mods are among the most subversive things that can be published on
     the
     technical front. CPunks subscribers may or may not personally need
     those
     docs for the Nameless Mission or Big Show in our lifetimes, but
     others
     do need them now.
     How many lusers put tape over their laptop camera lens, but neglect
     to
     cut the pins on the microphone?  How many people even know their
     shiny
     new car has a GPS receiver and an IP capable two-way radio enabling
     remote sabotage, and of these, how many know where the antenna
     connections are?  There's a lot of room to educate a justifiably
     paranoid public on practical aspects of these and similar matters,
     if
     anyone has the time and interest to make that a Thing.
     :o)

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