[Battlemesh] [OpenWrt-Users] Hardware implants on routers. Something that concerns us all

The Doctor drwho at virtadpt.net
Fri May 16 20:26:35 CEST 2014


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On 05/15/2014 02:40 PM, Ben West wrote:
> In lieu of knowledge that the Heartbleed bug was almost certainly 
> exploited by intelligence agencies, I'd wonder specifically about
> holes in things like on-chip AES encryption in radio chipsets, or
> even in popular pseudo-random number generator implementations.
> One could indeed speculate whether such holes were intentionally
> introduced.

This was discussed extensively on various crypto-related mailing lists
for weeks at a time earlier this year.  To summarize all of the
threads, the bikeshed is the color of despair.

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