Silicon Trojan

CloneRanger · Mar 22, 2010

From 2008 even though it says 2038

Unless it's from the future Sure sounds futuristic, but non the less for real Havn't seen it mentioned anywhere else, so thought you might like to read it.

Towards Countering the Rise of the Silicon Trojan

Defence Science and Technology Organisation

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Chief, Command, Control, Communications and Intelligence Division

To date, Trojans have in the vast majority taken the form of malicious software. However, more recent times have seen the emergence of what has been dubbed by some as the Silicon Trojan "Schwartau 1994" "Adee 2008" these trojans are embedded at the hardware level and can be designed directly into chips and devices. The complexity of the design of the device or chip in which they are embedded, coupled with the severe difficulty of evaluating increasingly dense, proprietary hardware designs, can make their discovery extremely difficult. For the purpose of this paper we consider firmware embedded in devices such as hard drives and similar classes of peripherals as being included in the Silicon Trojan stable.

Of interest to us is the possible effectiveness of a Silicon Trojan, whether they form a credible ongoing threat, and possible approaches which can be used as countermeasures.
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http://dspace.dsto.defence.gov.au/dspace/bitstream/1947/9736/1/DSTO-TR-2220 PR.pdf

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