Crypto to defend chip IP: snake oil or good idea?

[Anne & Lynn Wheeler]

EE Times is carrying the following story:
http://www.eetimes.com/news/latest/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=190900759

from above ...

San Jose, Calif. -- Security specialist Certicom Corp. this week will 
roll out a hardware-based approach to protecting silicon intellectual 
property using its elliptic-curve cryptography (ECC) technology and a 
20,000-gate embedded core.

... snip ...

in 2000, the initial estimate was 40,000-gate embedded core ... but that 
included the key-gen and public key export as part of initial power-on/test.

ref:
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/aadsm24.htm#49 Crypto to defend chip IP: 
snake oil or good idea?
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/aadsm24.htm#50 DDA cards may address the UK 
Chip&Pin woes

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