> 3. At that level of paranoia, you're always going
> to probe deeper... Suppose someone inserted backdoors
> into your RISC-V core. Suppose the fab house has
> backdoors in the layout tools. Suppose an oversight
> committee got paid off...
the damage that would be done to the reputation of
any company stupid enough to allow backdoors to be
slipped into their tools would be... they'd be
finished. absolutely NOBODY would trust them EVER
AGAIN - not their billion-dollar customers or the
Military or the Intelligence Services that utilise
their tools on a daily basis.
no - what you're suggesting is, far from being
a plausible scenario, is in fact those companies
WORST NIGHTMARE scenario because it's the day that
they go out of business and probably have agents
from all over the world queueing up to murder
them! i love that film with john travolta,
"this is incredible. i never seen anything like
this. ya actually gotta get in
line to whack this guy"....
not anything useful
> 2. Is there even a complete spec for RISC-V?
yes.
> 3. At that level of paranoia, you're always going > to probe deeper... Suppose someone inserted backdoors > into your RISC-V core. Suppose the fab house has > backdoors in the layout tools. Suppose an oversight > committee got paid off...
the damage that would be done to the reputation of any company stupid enough to allow backdoors to be slipped into their tools would be... they'd be finished. absolutely NOBODY would trust them EVER AGAIN - not their billion-dollar customers or the Military or the Intelligence Services that utilise their tools on a daily basis.
no - what you're suggesting is, far from being a plausible scenario, is in fact those companies WORST NIGHTMARE scenario because it's the day that they go out of business and probably have agents from all over the world queueing up to murder them! i love that film with john travolta, "this is incredible. i never seen anything like this. ya actually gotta get in line to whack this guy"....