发明名称 Method and apparatus for generating and using a tamper-resistant encryption key
摘要 The present invention increases the difficulty of reverse engineering sensitive information protected by an encryption algorithm by increasing the difficulty associated with tracing the code that generates the key or the encryption algorithm. This is accomplished by generating the key, used to encrypt and decrypt the sensitive information, as a function of the program instruction values of the procedures used to generate the key and perform the decryption of the sensitive information. Thus, if the key generation code or the decryption code is modified (such as (but without limitation) by placement of a breakpoint, a trace function, or a halt instruction in the code) the resulting key will be different from the key used to encrypt the sensitive information and the decryption attempt will fail.
申请公布号 US6675297(B1) 申请公布日期 2004.01.06
申请号 US19990263383 申请日期 1999.03.05
申请人 SIGMA DESIGNS, INC. 发明人 IGNASZEWSKI MICHAEL
分类号 G06F11/30;G06F21/00;H04L9/00;(IPC1-7):G06F11/30 主分类号 G06F11/30
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