Mechanism · Hardware-enabled guarantees (flexHEG) and guarantee processors
State attackers can likely defeat current secure enclosures
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The flexHEG authors write that "nation-state attackers can likely compromise the best current secure enclosures", and that the marginal cost of circumvention per device is hard to estimate 2. RAND similarly judges that anti-tamper measures "would not be insurmountable for a determined and well-resourced adversary", although they raise costs and can reveal tampering 5.