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dna_polymerase on Sept 19, 2023 | parent | context | favorite | on: Snowden leak: Cavium networking hardware may conta...

Crypto matters for exactly this reason. All my internet traffic passes through unsafe middle-boxes, it is TLS and DH that make sure I can pass through untrusted middlemen without them knowing what is going on.

slt2021 on Sept 19, 2023 | [–]

Cavium chips are installed on security appliances (lol): think Palo alto firewall, fortinet firewall, F5 Big-IP etc.

they will see your traffic in plain text by design

irreticent on Sept 19, 2023 | [–]

If everything is encrypted then you're safe... until you decrypt the data on a machine with a backdoored CPU.

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