Abstract: The present invention considers an apparatus for prevention of tampering, unauthorized use, and unauthorized extraction of information from at least one secure system including at least one information device arranged to process information, at least one integrated encryption segment arranged to encrypt the information using at least one encryption process enabled by a set of encryption key information incorporated in at least one secure information storage of the at least one information device, at least one destruction driver arranged to initiate and support at least one controllable energy release in a proximity of the at least one secure information storage of the at least one information device incorporating the set of encryption key information, such that at least fraction of the set of encryption key information has been obliterated during the controllable energy discharge.

Abstract: A system for protection of information on a secured microdevice, including a control unit, an obliteration driver, and a circuit arranged to conduct the at least one pulse of electric current. The circuit incorporates at least one resistive load having a localized predetermined resistance such that the delivered portion of stored electric energy is locally resistively converted into a mechanical energy of motion during a time period shorter than a duration of time needed for heat diffusion out a volume in the proximity of the at least the fraction of stored information.