Citing the current state of cybersecurity around the world, the University of Michigan has developed an unhackable computer processor. Dubbed “Morpheus”, the special chip can essentially change its core structure from time to time to prevent hackers from getting into the system.
To understand how it works, let me give you a quick brief about computer processors. So, what are processors? They are essentially a hardware component that allows various software applications to run on a system.
The processor changes the ways it executes the instruction or the format of data going from one Morpheus machine to another. And as it happens at the microarchitectural level, the randomization does not affect any software running on the processor.
As per the researchers of the Michigan University, last summer, around 523 security researchers tried to hack the Morpheus processor for three whole months as part of a study sponsored by the US Defence Advanced Research Program Agency (DARPA). However, none of them were able to do so.
