A Shady Chinese Firm’s Encryption Chips Got Inside the US Navy, NATO, and NASA
Deeg says that Initio has since fixed those vulnerabilities. But more troubling, he says, was how tough it was to do that analysis of the devices' firmware. The code had no public documentation, and Hualan didn't respond to his requests for more information. Deeg says the lack of transparency points to how difficult it would be to find a hardware-based backdoor in the chips, such as a minuscule component hidden in their physical design to allow for surreptitious decryption.
When WIRED reached out to device manufacturers who use Initio chips, iStorage, the UK-based encrypted hard drive maker, told WIRED that its storage devices' architecture means that users don't have to trust Hualan or its Initio subsidiary because the private keys used to encrypt and decrypt data stored on them are generated and stored by a separate chip that comes from a different, France-based manufacturer, and the Initio chip never stores that key.
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