Attack of the clones: If you were relying on older Xilinx FPGAs to keep your product’s hardware code encrypted and secret, here’s some bad

A newly disclosed vulnerability in older Xilinx FPGAs can be exploited to simplify the process of extracting and decrypting the encrypted bitstreams used to configure the chips. In other words, it’s now easier to produce clones of products that use these vulnerable Xilinx components.

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