Researchers Spot Silicon-Level Hardware Trojans in Chips

https://www.hackster.io/news/researchers-spot-silicon-level-hardware-trojans-in-chips-release-their-algorithm-for-all-to-try-ba00bbd56248

by NextHendrix • 3 years ago

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andreareina2• 3 years ago

Researchers develop techniques to spot hardware trojans.

exabrial• 3 years ago

Seems like two things are in direct conflict: On one hand, a company needs to protect it's IP and prevent China from outright copying it's designs and selling without the R&D cost attached. On the other hand, but publishing it's designs, it can be verified as safe by anyone.

ElfinTrousers2• 3 years ago

By publishing their designs, anyone can verify the _published_ design as safe. That doesn't necessarily mean that the chips that are actually manufactured are according to that design.

andreareina2• 3 years ago

The idea of these techniques is that the physical chips can be compared against the reference designs. Though I didn't see whether they're able to detect changes in behaviour due to doping.

ElfinTrousers2• 3 years ago

I assume that most or all of the common CPUs you can buy today include backdoors inserted at the request of one intelligence agency or another.

Researchers Spot Silicon-Level Hardware Trojans in Chips

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