So I'm skimming through http://it.slashdot.org/story/12/05/28/1454222/backdoor-found-in-china-made-us-military-chip and find:
"These secure FPGAs contain a heavily obfuscated hardware crypto-engine, with lots of techniques to obstruct DPA (deliberately unstable clocks," Hmmm, I seem to remember there was some problem with an unstable clock on OGD1. And of course, open hardware provides a more secure environment than closed hardware. If AMD/ATI or Nvidia has a security hole (intentional or unintentional) in their hardware or closed driver, what can the user do? This can be a selling point, not just to the military, but to banking, and to *many* other applications. _______________________________________________ Open-graphics mailing list [email protected] http://lists.duskglow.com/mailman/listinfo/open-graphics List service provided by Duskglow Consulting, LLC (www.duskglow.com)
