are they making a fully open-source SoC? no. so forget about "open hardware" if that only means open-everything-except-the-SoC-and-a-few-other-stuff-that-has-binary-blobs-in-it ;)
On Tue, Dec 16, 2014 at 4:39 PM, ianG <i...@iang.org> wrote: > > Surprisingly, the OneRNG project is already half way to the goal of $10k > NZD after only a week. > > https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/moonbaseotago/onerng- > an-open-source-entropy-generator > > One reason I really like this project is that it is hopefully totally > open. If we can seed the world with open hardware designs, we can have a > chance of leaking this project into all sorts of other things like home > routers, IoT things, Bitcoin hardware wallets etc. > > iang > > > > On 15/12/2014 19:18 pm, ianG wrote: > >> After Edward Snowden's recent revelations about how compromised our >> internet security has become some people have worried about whether the >> hardware we're using is compromised - is it? We honestly don't know, but >> like a lot of people we're worried about our privacy and security. >> >> What we do know is that the NSA has corrupted some of the random number >> generators in the OpenSSL software we all use to access the internet, >> and has paid some large crypto vendors millions of dollars to make their >> software less secure. Some people say that they also intercept hardware >> during shipping to install spyware. >> >> We believe it's time we took back ownership of the hardware we use day >> to day. This project is one small attempt to do that - OneRNG is an >> entropy generator, it makes long strings of random bits from two >> independent noise sources that can be used to seed your operating >> system's random number generator. This information is then used to >> create the secret keys you use when you access web sites, or use >> cryptography systems like SSH and PGP. >> >> Openness is important, we're open sourcing our hardware design and our >> firmware, our board is even designed with a removable RF noise shield (a >> 'tin foil hat') so that you can check to make sure that the circuits >> that are inside are exactly the same as the circuits we build and sell. >> In order to make sure that our boards cannot be compromised during >> shipping we make sure that the internal firmware load is signed and >> cannot be spoofed. >> > > _______________________________________________ > cryptography mailing list > cryptography@randombit.net > http://lists.randombit.net/mailman/listinfo/cryptography >
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