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Fighting the black market: crypto-locks for CPUs, other ICs

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A team of engineers at the University of Michigan and Rice University have created a hardware-based combination lock that would prevent CPUs from working unless "approved" by its designers. It's meant to stop black market piracy in Asia, and is an intriguing use of public-key cryptography.Read More...

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