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Re: Protecting intellectual property



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Joel wrote:
>On Sep 28, 2009, at 4:16 PM, Mark Johnson wrote:
>> You _could_ embed one or more pieces of the
>> trading system algorithm in hardware.  Attach
>> this hardware to the user's computer by means
>> of a USB or FireWire port and call it a "Dongle".
>
>Why not put the whole trading system into hardware?
>
>FPGAs are remarkably accessible nowadays.

And the design loaded into them is exposed and remarkably easy to
read. If you can program it, you can read it back. I suspect it
isn't much different than reading a DLL.

Same is true for programmable DSP chips.

Given the responses this thread has generated, I think a good
solution for securing a trading strategy is to have a key part of it
separated from the strategy code, such as on a remote server or a
hardware dongle.

-Alex