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Well math wise its kinda impossible to know if a black box implementation is malicious from outputs alone. Its in a similar vein to the halting problem. Whether side channels such as power work I would have to find the paper, but what your suggesting is impossible at least in general from my understanding. I have also read a few papers also using emf emissions. Although they all certainly would increase attack difficulty.

There also the problem of margin of error. Could an attack hide in the allowed tolerances of error. Also if the tolerance is too small a lot genuine/unaltered devices may trigger false positives.




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