Re:What is a System-on-Chip (SoC), and why do we care if the...
by bzb6 on Tuesday November 10, 2020 @04:29AM
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Isn’t that the reason people aren’t supposed to trust the RDRAND instruction from Intel?
Re:What is a System-on-Chip (SoC), and why do we care if the...
by octoberfranklin on Tuesday November 10, 2020 @04:47AM
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Correct.
No, and that's the big problem.
You can't even tell by grinding the layers off one by one and inspecting them with a microscope. There was a paper published recently showing how to backdoor a random number generator by fiddling with the dopants. No visual difference at any magnification level. I suppose you could test for it with an electron microscope but you'd have to know what you're looking for and where to look.