METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PREVENTION OF TAMPERING AND UNAUTHORIZED USE, AND UNAUTHORIZED EXTRACTION OF INFORMATION FROM SECURED DEVICES
First Claim
1. An apparatus for prevention of tampering, unauthorized use, and unauthorized extraction of information from at least one secure system, comprising:
- at least one information device arranged to communicate, assemble, control, process, or store information;
at least one integrated encryption segment associated with at least one encryption device and arranged to encrypt the information using at least one encryption process enabled by at least one predetermined set of encryption key information incorporated in at least one secure information storage of the at least one information device;
at least one destruction driver arranged to initiate, and support at least one controllable energy release in a proximity of the at least one secure information storage of the at least one information device incorporating the at least one predetermined set of encryption key information, such that at least a fraction of the at least one predetermined set of encryption key information has been obliterated during the controllable energy release;
wherein, the obliterated fraction of the at least one predetermined set of encryption key information has been preselected to include a functional segment of encrypting key information necessary for decoding of the at least one information device communicated, assembled, controlled, processed, or stored information.
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Abstract
The present invention considers an apparatus for prevention of tampering, unauthorized use, and unauthorized extraction of information from at least one secure system including at least one information device arranged to process information, at least one integrated encryption segment arranged to encrypt the information using at least one encryption process enabled by a set of encryption key information incorporated in at least one secure information storage of the at least one information device, at least one destruction driver arranged to initiate and support at least one controllable energy release in a proximity of the at least one secure information storage of the at least one information device incorporating the set of encryption key information, such that at least fraction of the set of encryption key information has been obliterated during the controllable energy discharge.
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28 Claims
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1. An apparatus for prevention of tampering, unauthorized use, and unauthorized extraction of information from at least one secure system, comprising:
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at least one information device arranged to communicate, assemble, control, process, or store information; at least one integrated encryption segment associated with at least one encryption device and arranged to encrypt the information using at least one encryption process enabled by at least one predetermined set of encryption key information incorporated in at least one secure information storage of the at least one information device; at least one destruction driver arranged to initiate, and support at least one controllable energy release in a proximity of the at least one secure information storage of the at least one information device incorporating the at least one predetermined set of encryption key information, such that at least a fraction of the at least one predetermined set of encryption key information has been obliterated during the controllable energy release; wherein, the obliterated fraction of the at least one predetermined set of encryption key information has been preselected to include a functional segment of encrypting key information necessary for decoding of the at least one information device communicated, assembled, controlled, processed, or stored information. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 27, 28)
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15. An apparatus for prevention of tampering, unauthorized use, and unauthorized extraction of information from at least one distributed secure system, comprising at least one processing subsystem and at least one security module, wherein
the at least one processing subsystem includes at least one information device arranged to communicate, assemble, control, process, or store information; - and at least one destruction driver arranged to initiate, and support at least one controllable energy release; and
the at least one security module includes at least another information device arranged to encrypt the information using at least one encryption process enabled by a set of encryption key information, and at least one destruction device arranged to localize at last one controllable energy release in a proximity of the at least one set of encryption key information, such that at least a fraction of the set of encryption key information has been obliterated during the controllable energy release; and herein, the obliterated fraction of the set of encryption key information has been preselected to include a functional segment of encrypting key information necessary for decoding of the at least one information device communicated, assembled, controlled, processed, or stored information. - View Dependent Claims (16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22)
- and at least one destruction driver arranged to initiate, and support at least one controllable energy release; and
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23. A subsystem for prevention of tampering, unauthorized use, and unauthorized extraction of information from at least one secure system, comprising at least one information device arranged to communicate assemble, control, process, or store information;
- at least one integrated encryption segment associated with the at least one information device and arranged to encrypt the information using at least one encryption process enabled by a set of encryption key information incorporated in at least one secure information storage of the at least one information device;
at least one mechanical destruction driver arranged to initiate, and support at least one controllable energy release in a proximity of the at least one secure information storage of the at least one information device incorporating the set of encryption key information, such that at least a fraction of the set of encryption key information has been obliterated during the controllable energy discharge;wherein, the at least one controllable energy release has been initiated, controlled, and driven by actions of at least one external participant. - View Dependent Claims (24, 25, 26)
- at least one integrated encryption segment associated with the at least one information device and arranged to encrypt the information using at least one encryption process enabled by a set of encryption key information incorporated in at least one secure information storage of the at least one information device;
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