Re: NSA back doors in encryption products

[Ben Laurie]

David Honig wrote:
> 
> At 09:54 PM 5/24/00 -0500, Jim Choate wrote:
> >As to inserting a trapdoor in an FPGA, I don't see any reason at all that
> >a trapdoor can't be inserted with the appropriate understanding of the
> >state space and chosing a rare state to trigger your bypass.
> 
> Yes but *once* you've verified the RTL (and from them the masks)
> you don't have to worry about some stray applet hosing your security.
> You do with software.

Errr ... you do with an FPGA, surely?

Cheers,

Ben.

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