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Shifting gears for the IoT
Shifting gears for the IoT
Writing for Semiconductor Engineering, Ann Steffora Mutschler observes that a shift is currently underway in the automotive industry as more connected vehicles hit the road each year.
“[Connectivity adds] many of the features that consumers now expect in mobile devices as well as some new ones that ultimately will lead to autonomous vehicles,” she explained.
“But along with those changes are…
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There is no giant Faraday cage for the IoT
There is no giant Faraday cage for the IoT
A Faraday cage or Faraday shield can best be defined as an enclosure formed by conductive material that is used to block electric fields. As such, Faraday cages either heavily attenuate or block the reception and transmission of radio waves, which are a form of electromagnetic radiation.
Image Credit: Frank Vincentz (Via Wikipedia)
Unfortunately, there is no Faraday cage large enough to shield…
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Paul Kocher to moderate RSA Cryptographers’ panel
Paul Kocher to moderate RSA Cryptographers’ panel
Paul Kocher, the President and Chief Scientist of Rambus’ Cryptography Research division, will be moderating the RSA 2016 Cryptographers’ Panel on March 1st at 9:50AM.
Participants, including Adi Shamir, Moxie Marlinspike, Ronald Rivest and Whitfield Diffie, are slated to discuss the latest advances and revelations in cryptography, as well as the top security trends of 2016. Kocher is also…
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NIST bolsters random number generators
NIST bolsters random number generators
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has published the second draft of a publication that details design principles for entropy sources, which measure the randomness of generated numbers.
As FCW’s Sean Lyngaas recently noted, cyber criminals can slice through a user’s communications without reliable random bit generators (RBGs).
“Security flaws in random number generators…
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Rambus Chief Scientist Paul Kocher to deliver keynote @ DesignCon 2016
Rambus Chief Scientist Paul Kocher to deliver keynote @ DesignCon 2016
Paul Kocher, the Chief Scientist of Rambus’ Cryptography Research Division, will deliver a keynote presentation at DesignCon 2016 on Thursday, January 21 in Santa Clara, California. Additional keynote speakers include Al Eisaian, CEO, IntelinAir, Inc., and Pat Byrne, President, Tektronix.
“With an emphasis on education and peer-to-peer sharing among practicing engineers, DesignCon creates an…
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Securing the silicon of the IoT
Securing the silicon of the IoT
Paul Kocher, the Chief Scientist of Rambus’ Cryptography Research Division, recently participated in an ARM TechCon panel about securing the Internet of Things (IoT). As Kocher told conference attendees, strong hardware-based crypto needs to be accompanied by an equally robust software security layer.
“8-10 years ago the industry was more focused on single-use platforms such as pay TV chips and…
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Rambus and Riverside Research to co-host security workshop
Rambus and Riverside Research to co-host security workshop
Rambus’ Cryptography Research division and Riverside Research will be co-hosting a two-day workshop on identifying and preventing advanced security threats. The workshop – scheduled for November 18-19, 2015 – is targeted at hardware and software security developers with a focus on defense and government industries.
More specifically, technologists designing and testing tamper resistant systems…
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Evolving differential power analysis targets SIM cards
Evolving differential power analysis targets SIM cards
Ernest Worthman of Semiconductor Engineering recently noted that differential power analysis (DPA) has been a threat vector on the chip landscape for a number of years.
“[DPA] was discovered around the mid 1990s by the teams at Rambus’ Cryptography Research Division,” he explained. “It turned out to be a very effective tool for compromising the ubiquitous SIM card environment.”
According to Simon…
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