Cryptography – Cryptanalysis
Patent
1988-09-16
1990-06-05
Buczinski, Stephen C.
Cryptography
Cryptanalysis
380 25, 380 50, 34082531, 34082534, G06F 1314
Patent
active
049320548
ABSTRACT:
Filter networks are incorporated within a software protection hardware device which is plugged into a communications port of a computer which device will select bits or combinations of bits emanating from the communications port resulting from commands of a controlling software in use with the computer which is desired to be protected. The filter networks select the bits of a disguised predetermined control code which when matched with a stored reference code results in an output from the filter used to activate functions within the protection device. A stream of bits including a disguised predetermined control code issuing from the computer through the security device are compared with a stored reference code in a programmable memory. When a match occurs an output emanates providing an acknowledgment code to the computer indicating that the hardware device has been plugged in and is a proper one. The stored reference code can be provided by a programmable memory using an intermediate storage register between the programmable memory and the selection network. The intermediate storage register is clocked changing the reference code in a predetermined manner. Accordingly, the reference code is changed in accordance with what is stored in the programmable memory and by the content of an intermediate register at any given time, the effect of which is to continually change the reference code by clocking the intermediate register.
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Chou Wayne W.
Erett Richard E.
Buczinski Stephen C.
Gregory Bernarr Earl
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