Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Electronic device including a digital circuit for accessing encrypted data in a memory and corresponding method to access encrypted data in a memory
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Application No.: US16150810Application Date: 2018-10-03
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Publication No.: US11023566B2Publication Date: 2021-06-01
- Inventor: Stefano Lunghi , Albert Martinez
- Applicant: STMicroelectronics S.r.l. , STMicroelectronics (Rousset) SAS
- Applicant Address: IT Agrate Brianza; FR Rousset
- Assignee: STMicroelectronics S.r.l.,STMicroelectronics (Rousset) SAS
- Current Assignee: STMicroelectronics S.r.l.,STMicroelectronics (Rousset) SAS
- Current Assignee Address: IT Agrate Brianza; FR Rousset
- Agency: Slater Matsil, LLP
- Priority: IT1020170115266 20171012
- Main IPC: H04L29/00
- IPC: H04L29/00 ; G06F21/12 ; G06F12/14 ; G06F21/72 ; G06F21/79 ; G06F9/445 ; G06F21/14 ; G06F21/60 ; G06F21/74 ; H04L9/06

Abstract:
An electronic device includes: a non-volatile memory configured to store data including encrypted data; and a digital circuit. The digital circuit includes: a microprocessor configured to access the non-volatile memory and an internal memory; and a decryption circuit arranged on an interconnect network identifying an internal data path for exchanging the data between the non-volatile memory and the microprocessor, and connected to a memory controller of the non-volatile memory for receiving blocks of data from the non-volatile memory, the decryption circuit being configured to: perform a decryption on the fly of blocks of the data read from the non-volatile memory to obtain read decrypted data; generate first decryption masks corresponding to first blocks of data being read from the non-volatile memory at a given read address; and generate second decryption masks corresponding to second blocks of data to be read from the non-volatile memory at a next estimated read address.
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