Ending Piracy of Integrated Circuits
Jarrod A. Roy, Farinaz Koushanfar, Igor L. Markov · Computer · 2010
An effective technique to combat IC piracy is to render infringement impractical by making physical tampering unprofitable and attacks computationally infeasible. EPIC accomplishes this using a novel low-overhead combinational chip-locking system and a chip-activation protocol based on public-key cryptography.