{"id":59479,"date":"2023-09-19T10:24:27","date_gmt":"2023-09-19T14:24:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pappp.net\/?guid=34ce1eb6e2a1e88733ad149e9598d49d"},"modified":"2023-09-19T10:24:27","modified_gmt":"2023-09-19T14:24:27","slug":"snowden-leak-cavium-networking-hardware-may-contain-nsa-backdoor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/?p=59479","title":{"rendered":"Snowden leak: Cavium networking hardware may contain NSA backdoor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/matthew_d_green\/status\/1703959863796158678\">Hacker News<\/a><\/p>\n<div style=\"background-color : #fff7d5;\n\t\t\tborder-width : 1px; padding : 5px; border-style : dashed; border-color : #e7d796;margin-bottom : 1em; color : #9a8c59;\">Article note: Interesting.  Also weird that it went unreported for so long. \n\nI can't quite tell what the exploit is from the provided context. Was it algorithm substitution with a backdoored version that will interoperate with the real one?  Was it a bad RNG (see: Dual_EC_DRBG)?  \n\nAs someone in the HN pointed out, one of the big markets for this stuff is HSMs (Hardware Security Modules: think co-processors that do the \"security stuff\" for a larger system) in hosted environments like clouds. Last I looked Cavium->Marvell's CloudHSM product was pretty big in the \"It's totally secure to do your work on our computer\" market.<\/div><a href=\"https:\/\/news.ycombinator.com\/item?id=37570407\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Comments<\/a>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Comments<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/pappp.net\/?p=59479\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[226],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-59479","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59479","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=59479"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59479\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=59479"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=59479"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=59479"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}