The Register - NSA proposes backdoor detection center (fwd)

[Major Variola (ret)]

At 06:36 AM 8/11/03 -0500, Jim Choate wrote:
>http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/55/32265.html

>>Wolf also said that untrustworthy hardware poses a
similar threat. "Most microelectronics fabrication in the USA is
rapidly moving offshore," said Wolf. "NSA is working on a Trusted
Microelectronics Capability to ensure that state-of-the-art hardware
devices will always be available for our most critical systems.<<

Only way they can do that is to build it themselves, from HDL to
GDSII and make their own masks.  You can't prove a function
doesn't exist in some box otherwise, if you don't know the
trigger.  Kinda like a PRNG and its key.