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Last Chance: Communicating at the Nuclear Brink

Hardware that is Less Untrusted: Open Source Down to the Silicon

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In an essay out of the workshop "Last Chance: Communicating at the Nuclear Brink," Ron Minnich argues "We can not build on a foundation that is compromised at all levels. There is no visibility into the system's behavior. The existing model assumes perfect software: 'Trust, but don't verify." We need to start anew, from the gates, and work our way up.
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In this essay, Ron Minnich argues “We can not build on a foundation that is compromised at all levels. There is no visibility into the system’s behavior. The existing model assumes perfect software: ‘Trust, but don’t verify.” We need to start anew, from the gates, and work our way up.

About the author: Ron Minnich is a software engineer at Google.

This is paper is accompanied by a Fourth Leg podcast: Assume Vulnerability.

 

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