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by ent 2049 days ago
It does, but as far as I've understood, FPGA's are much simpler and more regular so hiding backdoors into those would be harder than hiding one into a hardware cpu.
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Is the hardware synthesizer / bitstream generator open source?
The Xilinx chip is mostly(fully?) supported by project X-Ray + Yosys.
Ultimately, we have to build our own chips. In the coming decade, getting a custom chip built will be on the same level as getting a PCB done 20 years ago. That brings many other concerns, such as slipping some snooping logic onto a corner of a chip, which is activated only when some 2048-bit string is sent to wake it up. Therefore, even when we have a Chip House build our chip, we're still going to have to knock the tops off and do something similar to what Ken Shirriff does https://www.righto.com/ to make sure there are no 'extra' circuits. Trust is Hard. https://www.win.tue.nl/~aeb/linux/hh/thompson/trust.html