I just hope they - somehow - find a solution for the problem that you can’t verify a build as of now. It was apparently not really easy to do with software, but with hardware? It seems almost impossible. But in order to be really sure that what you see is what you get - we need that verification.
Don’t ask me how that would even be possible. Because every solution my buddies and I have thought of is impossible or means to have hardware that is akin to the state of things roughly 50 years ago and extremely slow.
As you mention this is a hard problem. Perhaps there’s some way to create a hardware equivalent of a checksum. I imagine for the foreseeable future it’s going to come down to how much you trust the vendor. One point to note is that there are only a handful of foundries capable of producing advanced chips anyways.
I just hope they - somehow - find a solution for the problem that you can’t verify a build as of now. It was apparently not really easy to do with software, but with hardware? It seems almost impossible. But in order to be really sure that what you see is what you get - we need that verification.
Don’t ask me how that would even be possible. Because every solution my buddies and I have thought of is impossible or means to have hardware that is akin to the state of things roughly 50 years ago and extremely slow.
As you mention this is a hard problem. Perhaps there’s some way to create a hardware equivalent of a checksum. I imagine for the foreseeable future it’s going to come down to how much you trust the vendor. One point to note is that there are only a handful of foundries capable of producing advanced chips anyways.