Imagination increases security on MIPS processors

BY Steven Bush, Electronics Weekly, Jun. 16, 2016 – 

"With growing connectivity across nearly every product category from consumer to automotive to industrial and beyond, security is an ever increasing challenge, and the massive amount of smart devices makes it harder to keep track of every single device," said Imagination. "The industry needs a more secure and scalable approach towards device authentication, registration and life-cycle management."

Intrinsic-ID's PUF technology, called 'hardware intrinsic security' (HIS), creates security keys and unique identifiers from the physical characteristics of semiconductor structures in each individual chip - a kind of per-die silicon fingerprint. It can extract a unique fingerprint from existing on-die SRAM for user, device or data authentication, or to derive a cryptographic root key.

"With HIS, no keys need to be programmed or stored in the system and no keys are present when the device is off, which provides a high level of protection against hardware attacks,"said Imagination.

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