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Vintage Computing for Trusted Radiation Measurements (princeton.edu)
49 points by sohkamyung on Jan 7, 2018 | hide | past | favorite | 1 comment


The premise appears to be that using an old, simple, easy-to-verify cpu/architecture makes it harder to embed malware in the nuclear-disarmament-verification code that hostile (or at least somewhat untrusting) states would both need to trust.

> ... as the performance of the inspection system is limited, and data acquisition and processing has to be designed and highly optimized accordingly.

I wonder if any potential exploit/workaround/disarmament-dodging would then just move to a different layer.

This also reminds me of the most recent Underhanded C contest at http://www.underhanded-c.org/_page_id_5.html




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