[HN Gopher] Programmable Chips Secured by Chaos
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       Programmable Chips Secured by Chaos
        
       Author : adrian_mrd
       Score  : 22 points
       Date   : 2021-04-22 09:04 UTC (1 days ago)
        
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       | rubicks wrote:
       | Is this the technology that https://dustidentity.com/ is doing?
        
       | shirleyquirk wrote:
       | full tin-foil hat time: knowing that state-level actors work with
       | manufacturers to include 'backdoors' into hardware (thinking of
       | RDRAND) is this an auditable source of randomness, or just as
       | opaque?
        
         | astrange wrote:
         | > knowing that state-level actors work with manufacturers to
         | include 'backdoors' into hardware (thinking of RDRAND)
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         | We certainly don't know that for rdrand, and not that often for
         | other things either.
        
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