Security News > 2023 > September > Marvell disputes claim Cavium backdoored chips for Uncle Sam

The implication, made explicit by the thesis index that references the footnote as "Cavium CPU backdoor," is that Cavium secretly compromised some of its chips to accommodate US intelligence efforts, providing a way for snoops to somehow access devices powered by those semiconductors.

"Marvell places the highest priority on the security of its products," a spokesperson told The Register.

"Marvell does not, and Cavium did not, implement 'backdoors' for any government."

Marvell does not, and Cavium did not, implement 'backdoors' for any government.

"Marvell supports a wide variety of protocols and standards including IPsec, SSL, TLS 1.x, DTLS and ECC Suite B. Marvell also supports a wide variety of standard algorithms including several variants of AES, 3DES, SHA-2, SHA-3, RSA 2048, RSA 4096, RSA 8192, ECC p256/p384/p521, Kasumi, ZUC and SNOW 3G. All Marvell implementations are based on published security algorithm standards."

Appelbaum's claim reminds us of allegations that surfaced in 2018 about Supermicro server motherboards containing spy chips, a claim Supermicro denied and didn't stand up to scrutiny.

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