Huang: Evaluating Precursor’s Hardware Security

For those who are interested in security at the hardware level, this blog post fromAndrew 'bunnie' Huang is well worth a read. "Despite any claimsyou may have heard otherwise, tamper resistance is a largely unsolvedproblem. Any secrets committed to a non-volatile format are vulnerable torecovery by a sufficiently advanced adversary. The availability ofnear-atomic level microscopy, along with sophisticated photon and phononbased probing techniques, means that a lab equipped with a few milliondollars worth of top-notch gear and well-trained technicians has a goodchance of recovering secret key material out of virtually any non-volatilestorage media. The hard part is figuring out where the secrets are locatedon the chip."