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DARPA looks for ways to verify integrated computer chip security.(SECURITY BEAT: Homeland Defense Briefs)

Article from: National Defense Article date: October 1, 2007 Author: Magnuson, Stew

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"Trust, but verify," was once the axiom that ruled the world of nuclear deterrence.

A Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency program seeks to do the same with the integrated computer chips that are now embedded in every major U.S. military weapon system.

Malicious circuits, defined by DARPA as "something more" than what is specified by the system designer, can be inserted into integrated chips (ICs) during the design, manufacture and packaging phases, said Dean Collins, a ...

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