David G. Koontz wrote: > http://www.physorg.com/news123951684.html >
Two more articles: http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20080309-fighting-the-black-market-crypto-locks-for-cpus-other-ics.html This one has a bit of the technical description http://itnews.com.au/News/71553,chip-lock-aims-to-end-hardware-piracy.aspx This has some comments including: "Ok, so ow the hardware has to 'phone home'; before it will work. does this mean that worldwide legitimate chip production has to halt every time the patent holder has a server failure? secondly, if someone has the capability of turning design documents into working silicon, they also have the capability to make changes to the design. what's to stop them from simply removing the lock circuitry from the design before making the chips? It seems to me that this DRM is like all other DRM. It causes problems for the legal users, and won't do anything to stop the illegal users." Posted by Kelly Gray, 8/03/2008 1:26:23 AM --------------------------------------------------------------------- The Cryptography Mailing List Unsubscribe by sending "unsubscribe cryptography" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
