trusting the processor chip

[Adam Shostack]

Ross Anderson's "Programing Satans Computer" springs to mind.
www.cl.cam.ac.uk/users/rja14/ 

Ross' papers are up there on my list of very worthwhile reading.

Adam


Rick Smith wrote:
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| 
| cwe at it.kth.se (Christian Wettergren) writes:
| 
| >Take a look at the IEEE Symp on Security and Privacy Proceedings from
| >1995, I believe it was. There was a paper there about security bugs in
| >the Intel processors, enumerating a number of them in 80386 for example.
| >There where at least one or two byte sequences that plainly stopped 
| >the processor.
| 
| Yes, and this is where the real risks are. The original question was
| entirely about explicit subversion. The larger risk is accidental
| flaws. Same with software in most cases.
| 
| Rick.
| smith at sctc.com           secure computing corporation
| 


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