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RECOMMENDATIONS ____________________________________________________________
− Establish current best practices for detecting and
preventing subversive techniques, keeping in
mind cost, both in money and time. 42
An investment strategy for enhancing U.S.
countertamper evaluation capabilities should be
developed. Current and projected capabilities must
be highly protected; insight into U.S. detection
abilities allows an adversary to tailor offensive
approaches to reduce their cost and operational
uncertainty.
Establish an aggressive national antitamper
development and evaluation program. Once the
appropriate level of trust is established for a given
component, effective, manufacturable, and
affordable antitamper technology must be applied to
the component to ensure the maintenance of trust.
Initiate an annual competition to exercise the
defensive approaches outlined above. This
competition will provide estimates of the
effectiveness of defensive techniques and increase
confidence in the risk management process.
Assess the subversion vulnerabilities of FPGAs. The
innovative application of FPGAs in DOD critical
systems shows great promise. However, aggressive
adversarial analysis of these approaches has not
been initiated.
A strategy for achieving the above hardware
countertamper objectives without a comparable strategy
for software is of limited utility. The task force
recommends DDR&E
Commission a similar DSB study to investigate
national security issues associated with rapid
42. These items are recommended tasks for the IC.
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