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Hardware-assisted Software Anti-Tamper

Award Information
Agency: Department of Defense
Branch: Air Force
Contract: FA8650-07-M-8115
Agency Tracking Number: O063-IA7-1250
Amount: $99,999.00
Phase: Phase I
Program: SBIR
Solicitation Topic Code: OSD06-IA7
Solicitation Number: 2006.3
Timeline
Solicitation Year: 2006
Award Year: 2007
Award Start Date (Proposal Award Date): 2007-01-29
Award End Date (Contract End Date): 2008-01-29
Small Business Information
317 N. Aurora Street
Ithaca, NY 14850
United States
DUNS: 603978321
HUBZone Owned: No
Woman Owned: No
Socially and Economically Disadvantaged: No
Principal Investigator
 Colin Van Dyke
 Senior Scientist
 (607) 273-7340
 colin@grammatech.com
Business Contact
 Ray Teitelbaum
Title: CEO
Phone: (607) 273-7340
Email: tt@grammatech.com
Research Institution
N/A
Abstract

Defense research and development is increasingly using software to perform critical roles. It is important that these assests be protected. Great progress has been made in providing in-band protection of software, including on-going work at GrammaTech. However, strong protection requires defensive measures at both the hardware and software levels. By adding additional reconfigurable hardware components to a system, a reverse engineer is confronted with additional devices to decipher, more hardware requirements for analysis, and the added complexity of additional inter-device communication to understand. We expect our Phase I effort to result in a prototype that will: (1) identify portions of a software executable that can be translated to an FPGA hardware environment; (2) perform sound binary-to-binary transformations to lift software algorithms out of a sensitive program and onto an FPGA.

* Information listed above is at the time of submission. *

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