16. Hardware-Based Security
We worry about computer security because important social processes keep migrating to distributed computerized settings. When considering security, it's important to take a holistic view—because we care about the security of the social process itself, not only some component. However, in this chapter, we take a reductionist point of view and look at one of the components in particular: the hardware.
Historically, probably the main path toward thinking about hardware security came from considering the protection of computation from adversaries with direct physical access to the computing machinery. We've always liked framing this question in terms of dependency. Alice's interests may depend on certain properties of ...
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