The State of Cryptography in 2014, Part 2: Hardware, Black Swans, and What To Do Now

We continue our look into the state of cryptography in 2014; Part 1 was posted earlier this week. Is Hardware Security Any Better? We closed the first post by asking: is hardware any more trustworthy? One would think that it is… but it’s not. Recently, chip vendors have been incorporating cryptography into their CPUs or chipsets. Usually,…