EINDHOVEN, THE NETHERLANDS — (Marketwire) — 10/04/12 — SELEX Elsag, a Finmeccanica company and Intrinsic-ID, a leading provider of security IP solutions, today announced SELEX-s intent to use security IP cores of Intrinsic-ID in projects and applications where high levels of anti-tamper, anti-cloning and protection against reverse engineering are required.
To address these requirements the security IP cores of Intrinsic-ID are based on Hardware Intrinsic Security (HIS). In HIS secret keys are extracted like a silicon biometric or fingerprint from physical properties of the chip and only when needed; they are not stored so attackers have nothing to find.
SELEX Elsag, after a careful analysis of security IP offerings on the market, selected the security IP cores of Intrinsic-ID because of their superior level of security and their product maturity.
“We will be delighted to start a cooperation with SELEX Elsag, a market leader in terms of security products,” said Pim Tuyls, CEO at Intrinsic-ID. “This is a clear endorsement for our HIS-based products into applications demanding the highest levels of security.”
SELEX Elsag, a Finmeccanica company, specialized in the design, development and support of hi-technology systems, products, solutions and services to meet the needs of the following business sectors: automation, defence communications, professional communications, Information & Communication Technology (ICT), logistics and mobility, safety and avionics systems. The company has over 7,400 employees and is headquartered in Genoa, Italy.
SELEX Elsag is one of Finmeccanica-s three strategic pillars within the defence electronics market, alongside SELEX Sistemi Integrati, which works within the defence, Homeland Security and radar sector; and SELEX Galileo, its centre for avionic and electro-optical systems. In addition, DRS is a US-based company specializing in defence and security electronics — particularly for C4I environments — and electro-optics for ground and ISTAR applications, and signal intelligence systems.
Intrinsic-ID is recognized as a worldwide leader in security solutions, delivering semiconductor IP and embedded software products based on Hardware Intrinsic Security. Hardware Intrinsic Security (HIS) technology — also referred to as -Physical Unclonable Function- — offers superior anti-tamper and anti-cloning features and allows binding software to a particular hardware device.
Intrinsic-ID-s security IP cores have been licensed and are publically endorsed by leading companies in the field of SmartCards, Automotive, Set-Top Box and Pay-TV, Networking & Communications, FPGA and Government applications.
Intrinsic-ID-s security IP cores can be implemented in the hardware of chips or run as a software executable on an embedded CPU in a device e.g. a phone or tablet. Intrinsic-ID-s security IP excels by its ease-of-integration in a standard manufacturing flow, its availability in all modern technology nodes, its scalability and small area and/or SW footprint which enables mass-scale deployment in cost-sensitive consumer applications.
Intrinsic-ID was founded in 2008 as a spin-out of Royal Philips Electronics and is headquartered in Eindhoven, The Netherlands.
Vanessa Stutz
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