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Re: trusting the processor chip
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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| [email protected] (Christian Wettergren) writes:
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| >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.
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| 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.
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| Rick.
| [email protected] secure computing corporation
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