Researchers demonstrate the ability to very subtly modify the doping on an Intel chip mask and drop the entropy of the random number generator in such a fashion that it becomes easy to crack the results of encryption that relies up on it. Best part being that the compromised hardware passes optical tests and all the FIPS tests.
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