They are "getting the message"?
http://www.eetimes.com/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=189601876
Darpa posted a call for proposals under solicitation number
BAA06-40 on June 5, calling for researchers to come up with
"revolutionary advances in science, devices or systems" to support
the verification that chips have been manufactured as intended and
without interference.
Sounds a little stupid / "too revolutionary" to me...
Chips to be trusted? Make them yourselves! (And even then they can be
compromised of course.)
Funny:
"Neither extensive electrical testing nor reverse engineering is
capable of reliably detecting compromised microelectronics
components."
Reverse engineering of samples should reveal the equivalent of "the
source code", what they say here is that you can never trust anything
100%. Which is true but clueless.
Not bad that this kind of understanding of security spreads.
The "blob theme" is incredibly hip!
Who came up with it?
+++chefren
