The shift from paper documents to their respective electronic formats is producing important advantages in the functioning of businesses and Public Administrations. However, this s...
—Packet classification is a function increasingly used in a number of networking appliances and applications. Typically, sists of a set of abstract classifications, and a set o...
Boolean logic minimization is traditionally used in logic synthesis tools running on powerful desktop computers. However, logic minimization has recently been proposed for dynamic...
—Today, middleboxes such as firewalls and network address translators have advanced beyond simple packet forwarding and address mapping. They also inspect and filter traffic, ...
Our work addresses protection of hardware IP at the mask level with the goal of preventing unauthorized manufacturing. The proposed protocol based on chip locking and activation i...