Would flash/antifuse-based vendors be more likely to disclose bitstream formats?

actela <actela@nowhere.net> writes:
> If you developed a field-process to extract the config-bitstream
> of 1 loaded/configured FPGA, presumably you could do it to any
> other FPGA based on the same die.

> So does it really matter whether the 'secret key' was unique to each
> customer's bitstream?

I suspect that any such process would have high variable cost and low
fixed cost.

But I could be wrong.

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