Copy Protection in Modern Microcontrollers

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I think the word "modern" is misplaced here. All of the listed microcontrollers are more than a decade old.

Great content, but I'd say that the page background color is a great copy protection measure in itself.

Content is from 2001 and the game has changed...seismically. There has been a Cambrian explosion in this field since 2k1.

Can you point to any newer resources?

There's a good paper by the Fraunhofer Society at the link below.

https://www.aisec.fraunhofer.de/content/dam/aisec/Dokumente/...

Cheers, I'll look through that in detail.

I remember Fraunhofer doing some interesting research using PUFs creating a foil device that covers special chips, where if the foil is tampered with, the memory of the chip is disrupted.

It's called PEP foil if I recall correctly.

Sergei's PhD thesis, is also an amazing read in case anyone hasn't seen it -

http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~sps32/phd.html

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