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Infineon and Spyrus collaborate on cryptographic chips
Number one European chip maker Infineon and California-based data security firm Spyrus have unveiled a new personal authentication and security product aimed at protecting data shared over the internet.
Number one European chip maker Infineon and California-based data security firm Spyrus have unveiled a new personal authentication and security product aimed at protecting data shared over the internet.
To be installed on special highly-secure Infineon chips, the product is designed to work with the Global Information Grid (GIG) – a new initiative by the US Department of Defence that seeks to provide a safe way of sharing confidential information between authorised user.
Unlike traditional, centralised methods of storing and distributing data, GIG does not store information in just one place but across a range of locations. It is, if you like, a peer to peer network for confidential data.
To run on the internet, GIG will provide the US Department of Defence, its allies and coalition partners, with "a secure, highly available, and globally interconnected information environment to meet the real-time information needs for security, military, diplomatic, and civil government purposes as well as for commercial enterprises".
Spyrus and Infineon’s new product employs a series of advanced crypto algorithms known as Suite B to safeguard information. Suite B is expected to become the de facto encryption standard for both government and business users.
The two companies intend to install the security product in Infineon's new 66PE family of secure microcontroller ICs. These chips have a number of important security features, not least an active shield to prevent tampering, an advanced cryptographic engine and state-of-the-art techniques to defeat possible side-channel analysis attacks.
These techniques include instruction-timing randomisation, complementary balanced circuitry, encrypted memory bus transfers and current scrambling techniques.
"Combining Infineon's leading edge security microcontroller technology with SPYRUS' embedded technologies will provide customers with improved legacy performance together with Suite B product capabilities today and ultimately improve time to deployment for systems with maximum security protection," said Joerg Borchert, Infineon vice president of chip card and security ICs.
To be installed on special highly-secure Infineon chips, the product is designed to work with the Global Information Grid (GIG) – a new initiative by the US Department of Defence that seeks to provide a safe way of sharing confidential information between authorised user.
Unlike traditional, centralised methods of storing and distributing data, GIG does not store information in just one place but across a range of locations. It is, if you like, a peer to peer network for confidential data.
To run on the internet, GIG will provide the US Department of Defence, its allies and coalition partners, with "a secure, highly available, and globally interconnected information environment to meet the real-time information needs for security, military, diplomatic, and civil government purposes as well as for commercial enterprises".
Spyrus and Infineon’s new product employs a series of advanced crypto algorithms known as Suite B to safeguard information. Suite B is expected to become the de facto encryption standard for both government and business users.
The two companies intend to install the security product in Infineon's new 66PE family of secure microcontroller ICs. These chips have a number of important security features, not least an active shield to prevent tampering, an advanced cryptographic engine and state-of-the-art techniques to defeat possible side-channel analysis attacks.
These techniques include instruction-timing randomisation, complementary balanced circuitry, encrypted memory bus transfers and current scrambling techniques.
"Combining Infineon's leading edge security microcontroller technology with SPYRUS' embedded technologies will provide customers with improved legacy performance together with Suite B product capabilities today and ultimately improve time to deployment for systems with maximum security protection," said Joerg Borchert, Infineon vice president of chip card and security ICs.
