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Re: Crypto to defend chip IP: snake oil or good idea?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Peter Gutmann)
Wed Jul 26 11:05:03 2006
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From: pgut001@cs.auckland.ac.nz (Peter Gutmann)
To: cryptography@metzdowd.com, perry@piermont.com
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Date: Wed, 26 Jul 2006 16:45:45 +1200
"Perry E. Metzger" <perry@piermont.com> writes:
>I'd be interested in other people's thoughts on this. Can you use DRM to
>protect something worth not eight dollars but eight million?
>From the EETimes article it looks like a really complicated way of
implementing software-controlled antifuses.
I think this goes a step beyond DRM in that while DRM is putting something
valuable in a safe and giving it to an opponent to hold onto, this concept
allows the opponent to furnish the safe as well. Good luck with that.
Peter.
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