DPA resistant cryptographic software on SmartFusion
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Microsemi has announced the availability of INVIA's differential power analysis (DPA) resistant products on Microsemi's Flash based fpga devices and SmartFusion, the only customisable SoC solution which integrates an fpga with analogue functions and a hard ARM mcu core.
DPA is a technique used by hackers to extract secret keys and compromise the security of semiconductors and tamper resistant devices by analysing the power consumption. Microsemi is the only major provider of cSoCs and fpgas to hold a patent license from Cryptography Research for DPA countermeasures and to offer INVIA's software libraries for AES, RSA and ECC cryptographic algorithms.
INVIA's DPA and fault resistant cryptopgraphic library runs on Microsemi's SmartFusion single chip cSoC with features a Cortex-M3 mcu, an fpga and analogue circuits on a single chip.
Esam Elashmawi, vice president and general manager at Microsemi, said: "Our collaboration with INVIA provides our customers with leading edge solutions that guard against the increasingly serious threat of DPA security breaches in a government, industrial, financial and other high profile applications. Combined with our ability to pass through Microsemi's CRI license to customers for many products, this allows them to employ DPA countermeasures quickly and efficiently."
Martin Gallezot, marketing and sales director of INVIA, added: "We're pleased that through our partnership with Microsemi, we're able to deliver customers crypto-algorithms designed to resist the most advanced side channel and fault injection attacks. Software with this level of security used to be available only on smart card like devices. It is now available on SmartFusion devices."
