Run for your lives! Researchers have developed trojan chips that nobody can find! Chipnado!
http://threatpost.com/researchers-develop-undetectable-hardware-trojans/102329 (Upon reading the headline, my initial reaction is to wonder how the researchers found the chips again after they'd made them. But I digress.) As usual, the media has overblown it. The actual paper: http://people.umass.edu/gbecker/BeckerChes13.pdf demonstrates a way to modify the operation of an integrated circuit in a way that makes it harder to find by visual inspection. Finding the variant functionality is probably inefficient, but not impossible. ====================== (quote inserted randomly by Pegasus Mailer) [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] As the length of the thread increases, the chances of someone making a pointless and completely off-the-wall comment (purely in the hope of having his/her/its name in the mailing list) approaches one. - rms, named Markwin's Law by MW, 20100615 victoria.tc.ca/techrev/rms.htm http://www.infosecbc.org/links http://blogs.securiteam.com/index.php/archives/author/p1/ http://twitter.com/rslade _______________________________________________ Fun and Misc security discussion for OT posts. https://linuxbox.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/funsec Note: funsec is a public and open mailing list.
