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The new FBI Director Christopher Wray has been repeating the broken rhetoric of the Crypto Wars:
In recent testimony before Congress, the director of the FBI has again highlighted what the government sees as the problem of easy-to-use, on-by-default, strong encryption.
In prepared remarks from last Thursday, FBI Director Christopher Wray said that encryption presents a "significant challenge to conducting lawful court-ordered access," he said, again using the longstanding government moniker "Going Dark."
The statement was just one portion of his testimony about the agency's priorities for the coming year.
The FBI and its parent agency, the Department of Justice, have recently stepped up public rhetoric about the so-called dangers of "Going Dark." In recent months, both Wray and Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein have given numerous public statements about this issue.
Remember to use encryption irresponsibly, and stay salty, my FBI friends.
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(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday December 12 2017, @08:47AM
Although it might not be enabled.
The ARM TrustZone stuff dates back to at least the A20 era hardware and I believe earlier.
The real solution at this point is coming up with VHDL/Verilog/etc chip designs, then process specific designs, then a set of unit tests against each with integrated support for fuzzing the inputs.
If the chip can successfully pass a few months of fuzzing without unintended operations it should be considerable as a success and so long as each new manufacturer or mask revision gets similiar scrutiny shoudl ensure that no chips end up backdoored in an easy to exploit manner.