Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Securing proprietary functions from scan access
- Patent Title (中): 保护专有功能免受扫描访问
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Application No.: US11851778Application Date: 2007-09-07
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Publication No.: US07975307B2Publication Date: 2011-07-05
- Inventor: Thomas Tkacik , Amir Daneshbeh
- Applicant: Thomas Tkacik , Amir Daneshbeh
- Applicant Address: US TX Austin
- Assignee: Freescale Semiconductor, Inc.
- Current Assignee: Freescale Semiconductor, Inc.
- Current Assignee Address: US TX Austin
- Agency: Ingrassia Fisher & Lorenz, P.C.
- Main IPC: G06F7/04
- IPC: G06F7/04

Abstract:
An electronic device as described herein implements a scheme to secure a data mapping function from scan access. The protection scheme can be used as a security measure for proprietary lookup tables, secret constants, digitally implemented algorithms, and the like. The electronic device employs a reconfigurable data mapping arrangement that can be reconfigured for a normal operating mode and a scan testing mode. While in the normal operating mode, a normal data mapping arrangement generates valid output data in accordance with the data mapping function. While in the scanning mode, however, a scanning data mapping arrangement generates invalid but testable output data in accordance with a data masking function that conceals, hides, masks, or obfuscates the data mapping function. Using the data masking function in this manner protects the data mapping function against reverse engineering attacks that attempt to derive the data mapping function from scan testing results.
Public/Granted literature
- US20090070577A1 SECURING PROPRIETARY FUNCTIONS FROM SCAN ACCESS Public/Granted day:2009-03-12
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