What is Tamper resistance?

The ability to withstand physical attacks such as opening a chip or probing it, protecting internal secrets, for example by erasing keys on detection.

Field: Hardware Security

Tamper resistance in the explanations

Questions that mention Tamper resistance (2)

  1. Which describes the tamper resistance required of security chips such as smart cards?
  2. What is the idea of "defense in depth," emphasized in hardware and software security?

Related terms

Secure boot Anti-rollback protection Cold boot attack Constant-time implementation Counterfeit chip eFuse Fault injection attack Hardware Trojan Kernel page-table isolation (KPTI) Measured boot

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