Re: NSA back doors in encryption products

[Eugene Leitl]

Jim Choate writes:

 > Bull, the hardware companies aren't any more trustworthy.

True. You can always validate a few from a batch by plasma etching the
device, and trace the structures on an electromicrograph (some EMs
allow you to observe the device in operation).

Also, it is hard to insert a trapdoor into an FPGA. OpenSource hardware.