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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 19, 2016
Filed:
Oct. 02, 2013
Andes Technology Corporation, Hsin-Chu, TW;
Chi-Chang Lai, Hsinchu County, TW;
Chun-Chang Yu, Yuanli Township, Miaoli County, TW;
ANDES TECHNOLOGY CORPORATION, Hsin-Chu, TW;
Abstract
The present invention discloses a method for software-hardware authentication of an electronic apparatus includes receiving a challenge string (CS) from the electronic apparatus through a challenge string input port (CSIP). The challenge string is a string of trace data generated according to some operations of software running on the electronic apparatus. An authentication result for use in an authentication process for the software to authenticate a hardware unit of the electronic apparatus or for the hardware unit to authenticate the software is generated according to the string of the trace data. The authentication process is performed according to the generated authentication result.