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Large exponentials and 8-bit PIC processors
Does anyone know if 8-bit (PIC) processors could typically handle large exponentials, e.g., 5^15 mod 23, with a reasonable speed? Does doing so result in more ...
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How to prevent someone clone PIC [closed]
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Okay I know there is code protection system on PIC. But it is preventing someone read the code, not copy. It looks still easy to clone and run on another circuit. Can you suggest another ...
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Protect Code inside Microcontroller [closed]
As a preface, what I am asking is highly related to this question. That said, the question linked was asked in 2011 (7 years ago), and I imagine the microcontroller world has changed (at least to ...
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Controller security
What is the general approach used by the military to safeguard controllers that fall into enemy hands?
Let's say the controller needs to interpret radio / wireless signals to do it's job. But it ...
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Strategy against Side Channel Attack
I am newbie to Hardware Security. While studying Side Channel Attack, I realized that power consumption profile of electronic control unit is a key to encrypt what algorithm runs on it. I thought ...
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Side-channel leakage and instruction types on microcontrollers
Since the end of 90s, it is known that side-channels (e.g. execution time, power consumption, electromagnetic emanations) of computation platforms can be analysed to recover information on data being ...
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How to ensure your MCU can't be reverse engineered?
I am building a project around an nRF51822 chip from Nordic, using the mbed prototyping platform. I would like to ensure that the code cannot be extracted / deduced from the project after it has been ...
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Controlling hardware with serial port [closed]
I initially posted this in SuperUser SE Site, but it was recommended that I bring it here instead. So, here we go :)
We have a 'dated' security system at the office. It is a model that was made (or ...
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