Barco Silex Partners with Rambus to Combat Security Threats in Point-of-Sale Market
April 06 2015 - 4:30PM
Business Wire
Enables expansion of DPA Countermeasure
solutions beyond traditional smartcard market
Rambus Inc. (NASDAQ:RMBS) today announced that its Cryptography
Research Division has entered into a partnership agreement with
Barco Silex. Through this agreement, Barco Silex can develop
DPA-resistant solutions that help accelerate time-to-market of
security-based products. Barco Silex will utilize Cryptography
Research differential power analysis, or DPA, countermeasure
technology to help protect against security risks in a variety of
point-of-sale applications, including banking, retailing, mass
transit, and wireless telecommunications.
“Side-channel attacks are becoming more prevalent, and we need a
sound solution to combat this growing risk to ensure customer
confidence and protect high value assets,” said Sébastien Rabou,
Product Manager at Barco Silex. “The partnership with Rambus allows
us to have access to the world-class cryptography engineers while
developing solutions to benefit the point-of-sale market.”
“The risk of security breaches continues to explode and
customers need to quickly get secure solutions into the market,”
said Dr. Simon Blake-Wilson, vice president of Products and
Marketing of the Rambus Cryptography Research division. “By
partnering with Barco Silex, we have created another channel that
will accelerate time-to-market with advanced security
technology.”
Concerns about DPA security attacks originated in the smartcard
market; however, the potential for these attacks is spreading into
many other markets. For this reason, there is a need for DPA
countermeasures to be adopted across all markets where valuable
financial and personal data is being handled. Today, products
commonly at risk include point-of-sale devices, mobile phones,
secure USB flash drives, pay television set-top boxes, and optical
disc players among others.
DPA is a type of side-channel attack that involves monitoring
variations in the electrical power consumption or EM emissions from
a target device. These measurements can then be used to derive
cryptographic keys and other sensitive information from chips.
Rambus Cryptography Research DPA countermeasure technologies are a
proven solution for protecting devices against the extraction of
cryptographic keys and private data through side-channel attacks.
Highly flexible, these solutions can be optimized for performance,
size and security level, allowing customers to help fend off
unauthorized access to critical information. Having discovered
side-channel attacks, Cryptography Research scientists have
developed a comprehensive portfolio of application-specific
hardware core and software library solutions that chipmakers can
use to build DPA resistant products. These DPA resistant solutions
can be integrated into a wide range of SoCs, including
power-sensitive mobile applications, highly secure anti-tampering
and performance-driven multi-core processors.
Barco Silex has joined the Rambus Partner Program, which will
enable further collaboration on other combined IP blocks offerings
between the two companies. For additional information on the Rambus
Partner Program, visit www.rambus.com/partners.
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About Cryptography Research
The Rambus Cryptography Research division specializes in
embedded security solutions to combat the worldwide threat to data
integrity, our innovative technologies span areas including tamper
resistance, content protection, network security, media and payment
and transaction services. Eight billion security products are made
annually with our security technology, and systems designed by our
scientists and engineers protect hundreds of billions of dollars in
revenues every year. Additional information is available at
cryptography.com.
About Barco Silex
Barco Silex is leader in video processing, encryption and
security IP cores and platforms as well as electronic design
services (ASIC, FPGA, DSP, Board). Thanks to its continued stream
of innovations, Barco Silex provides state-of-the-art solutions in
video, encryption and security. Barco Silex security platforms and
encryption cores deliver unrivaled speed performance and compact
footprint. For more information about Barco Silex:
www.barco-silex.com.
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For RambusRacepoint GlobalHilary Costa,
415-694-6705hcosta@racepointglobal.comorFor Barco SilexBarco
Silex Louvain-La-Neuve BelgiumGeert
Decortegeert.decorte@barco.com
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