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Re:Cryptography May Not Be Dead, But It Is on Life Support by drdaeman on Tuesday January 21, 2014 @12:58PM (#7096958)
One can make a microcontroller (not much space for government trojan horses here, huh) handle crypto. Or build a computer on FPGA.

It won't have much processing power, but it will still be sufficiently fast to handle strong crypto on text messages.

Or, if they're really really paranoid, there is always an option to use old trusty TTL components.

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Re:Cryptography May Not Be Dead, But It Is on Life Support by chris_mahan on Tuesday January 21, 2014 @02:02PM (#7097433)
And who is this microcontroller maker and how do I ensure that they have not been "cooperating" with anyone interested in breaking the encryption?

Or do I have to build my own chips? And hopefully I didn't make an implementation mistake.

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