Re:Glenn Greenwald: The NSA tampers with US-made routers
by makomk on Tuesday May 13, 2014 @05:21AM
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FPGA bitstreams are big, sometimes even big enough that you couldn't fit another bitstream in hardware anywhere. What's more, making even a small change to the bitstream and re-synthesising tends to completely change how the design is laid out in hardware - so launching an attack that targets a specific bitstream, like most of the obvious nefarious-fab attacks, isn't much good.
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