Author Archives: Mohamed El Massad

We Built a Circuit Locking Service — and You Can Use It Right Now

If you design chips, work in hardware security, or just find the idea of cryptographically protecting a circuit interesting, this post is for you. We just launched a free web service that lets you lock any combinational circuit using a provably secure technique called Indistinguishable Locking (LCI). You upload a BLIF netlist, and we handContinue reading “We Built a Circuit Locking Service — and You Can Use It Right Now”

My “Business”

My business? My business is to create secure digital integrated circuits. My purpose in life is protecting semiconductor intellectual property and ensuring the security of the global microchip supply chain. My mission is to secure digital integrated circuits. My purpose in life is to protect Saudi, Sudanese, and Canadian semiconductor intellectual property and ensure theContinue reading “My “Business””

Can we build a custom electronic chip whose structure reveals nothing about its function?

You probably heard the term “PUF”, or “physically unclonable function” before (if not, you should look it up!). A PUF is a physical object that is virtually impossible to clone using state-of-the-art fabrication technology. It exhibits functional characteristics that are very hard to predict, and, by virtue of being unpredictable, are hard to duplicate. (ThinkContinue reading “Can we build a custom electronic chip whose structure reveals nothing about its function?”