Bunnie's Precursor Crowdfunding Begins

Re:Bunnie's Precursor Crowdfunding Begins by ent on Sunday November 01, 2020 @02:52PM (#24961981)

It does, but as far as I've understood, FPGA's are much simpler and more regular so hiding backdoors into those would be harder than hiding one into a hardware cpu.

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Re:Bunnie's Precursor Crowdfunding Begins by CyberRabbi on Sunday November 01, 2020 @03:20PM (#24962163)

Is the hardware synthesizer / bitstream generator open source?

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Re:Bunnie's Precursor Crowdfunding Begins by aDfbrtVt on Sunday November 01, 2020 @03:44PM (#24962348)

The Xilinx chip is mostly(fully?) supported by project X-Ray + Yosys.

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Re:Bunnie's Precursor Crowdfunding Begins by GeorgeTirebiter on Sunday November 01, 2020 @05:03PM (#24962929)

Ultimately, we have to build our own chips. In the coming decade, getting a custom chip built will be on the same level as getting a PCB done 20 years ago. That brings many other concerns, such as slipping some snooping logic onto a corner of a chip, which is activated only when some 2048-bit string is sent to wake it up. Therefore, even when we have a Chip House build our chip, we're still going to have to knock the tops off and do something similar to what Ken Shirriff does https://www.righto.com/ to make sure there are no 'extra' circuits. Trust is Hard. https://www.win.tue.nl/~aeb/linux/hh/thompson/trust.html

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