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Deep Life provides design services in the specialised field of cryptography for applications such as smart cards and media, where the cryptography must withstand attack even when the attacker has the hardware and can examine it at will.

Cryptography strong enough to allow attackers full access to the hardware

Once a Smart Card is in the hands of a knowledgeable attacker, all the data on it, and its operation can be read. If the Smart Card relies on conventional cryptography, then once the reader has the relevant circuit states and key, then they can replicate the card, create their own cards, modify transactions or falsify transactions.

Physically Observable Cryptrography (POC) solves this problem by keeping data secure, even when the attacker has full access to the circuitry, algorithm, layout, even they can read all static circuit states and monitor dynamic signals. BlindEye is Deep Life's technology for POC, available as a design service to ASIC design teams.

BlindEye fills the security gap for smart cards and media distribution with a formally provable method that completely eliminates the information content in side-channels and which no amount of sampling can remove. A further benefit is that it uses a small fraction of the bandwidth taken up by spread spectrum clocking and noise masks, so encryption and decryption can run faster in any given fabrication technology. BlindEye is almost unique in defeating light attacks: the attacker does not benefit even when they obtain all circuit states.

For more information, including Evaluation Cards and Technology Partner Programmes Click Here.

 

Firebird Crypto-Analysers now to 59Ta/sec

Firebird is a tool for verifying security ASICs, simulating attacks where transistor states are read by applying a stimulus, light or a glitch, and monitoring the power.

Firebird is believed to be the world's most powerful crypto-analyser for vulnerability assessment of media (smartcards, and other digital media). Firebird provides up to 59 Tera attacks per second, attacking up to 36K devices simultaneously to cut through noise to find the smallest statistical imbalances, each measurement having unprecidented precision. Firebird can be used with light attack sensor arrays to collect large quantities of synchronous data at record speed.

The accuracy of Firebird's timing systems is unparalleled, providing:

  • Resolution of +/-1ps per channel,
  • Overall Timing Accuracy of +/-5ps per channel,
  • Overall Timing Accuracy of +/-25ps across all channels.
  • Real time error capture and display at 1.6Gbps per channel, on all channels simultaneously.

This timing accuracy is combined with 24 bit parametric measurement for power analysis and light current attacks, along with ultra-fast power supplies for precision fault injection.

A suite of tools for memory analysis is provided with Firebird which again surpasses those available in the fabrication plant or chip design house.

For more information, including images and full specifications Click Here.