IBM Hardwires Encryption Into Chips

zenwarrior writes "Reported by CNET, a new chip technology termed Secure Blue by IBM will keep users' data encrypted and secured at virtually every moment on essentially anything in which the chip can be used. Data is even encrypted in RAM, leaving display for users' viewing as almost the last place it isn't encrypted. This has to be considered decidedly anti-Homeland Defense by the current administration. If so, when will we see it if ever?"

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Re:Pretty cool

[TheGratefulNet]

IANAS (I am not a spook) but I fully believe that ANY and ALL encryption devices MUST have a NSA backdoor. or you will not be allowed to develop and sell in the US.

I did work for a company a long time ago who was doing video encryption and they had to have 'permission' to use it and they also had to demonstrate that it wasn't so hard that the NSA _could_ break it, if they wanted to.

routers having to have backdoors (vendors will deny it, of course), ports being mirror-able at NSA request, its all 'business as usual' in the modern USA ;(

when the POTUS goes on fishing trips to try to find guilty people sans any direct evidence, do you REALLY think that this encryption will be totally sealed, end to end, and only the end user/owner will have the key?

its getting to the point where the only encryption you can really trust is one you ENTIRELY write yourself. and how many of us can do that?

any hardware design - you KNOW it will be sent to the NSA for approval. perhaps not using official/visible channels, but you know how this world REALLY works, don't you? ....

any time that security is sold to you as a 'user feature' by some NSA-friendly vendor (ie, any US company), you better believe its just 100% the opposite.