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Self-Destructing Circuits and More Security Schemes

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Other researchers invented new ways to obfuscate electromagnetic emissions radiating from an active processor that might reveal its secrets. If it picks up that signal it engages what Lao called a protection engine, logic that can guard against the attack by, for example, instructing the processor to encrypt its data traffic.

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DEKRA-certified tests: Mercedes-Benz HD trucks cut fuel consumption 22% in 20 years while meeting more stringent emissions rules; VECTO

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Despite drastically more stringent emission standards for nitrogen oxides and particulates, the fuel consumption of Mercedes-Benz heavy trucks has been reduced by 22% over the last 20 years, according to the results of a comparative test drive certified by the test organization DEKRA. Click to enlarge. g/kWh of particulate mass. mpg US); and.

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