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Re: [Cryptography] Fwd: [IP] 'We cannot trust' Intel and Via's
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bill Frantz)
Thu Dec 19 13:31:27 2013
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Date: Thu, 19 Dec 2013 09:17:36 -0800
From: Bill Frantz <frantz@pwpconsult.com>
To: cryptography@metzdowd.com
In-Reply-To: <20131218014721.GB19261@thunk.org>
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On 12/17/13 at 5:47 PM, tytso@mit.edu (Theodore Ts'o) wrote:
>Ultimately, if you need to live at that level of paranoia, you'll need
>to build your own CPU out of TTL logic chips --- something which I
>learned how to do when I was a freshman at MIT. It won't be a
>terribly fast computer, though....
One should be fairly safe using commodity FPGAs and probably get
a decent improvement in speed. Of course the question is, how
much speed will be needed? A fair bit for 4096 bit RSA.
Considerably less for 128 bit AES. Very little for secure random
source to be read from another CPU.
Cheers - Bill
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