Keeping Secrets in Hardware: the Microsoft Xbox(TM) Case Study

This paper discusses the hardware foundations of the cryptosystem employed by the Xbox(TM) video game console from Microsoft. A secret boot block overlay is buried within a system ASIC. This secret boot block decrypts and verifies portions of an external FLASH-type ROM. The presence of the secret bo...

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Main Author: Huang, Andrew "bunnie"
Language:en_US
Published: 2004
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/6694