LONDON — Infineon Technologies AG (Munich, Germany) has agreed to license security technology for tamper-resistant semiconductors from Cryptography Research Inc. (San Francisco, Calif.).
Infineon said it would license CRI's patents for countermeasures to differential power analysis (DPA) and technology and patents related to CRI's CryptoFirewall. Infineon is expected to integrate CryptoFirewall into select products of one of Infineon's secure microcontroller platforms.
DPA is a type of attack that involves monitoring variations in a device's electrical power consumption. It then uses statistical methods to extract secret cryptographic keys. Many security applications and leading certification standards such as Common Criteria require side-channel attack countermeasures. Security-certified products are used in banking, conditional access, mass transit, identification, telecommunications and other applications.
"Infineon is recognized internationally for their leadership position in developing security chips for the smart card industry," said Paul Kocher, president and chief scientist at CRI, in a statement issued by Infineon.
"Along with energy efficiency and communication, security is one of the three focus areas of Infineon," said Helmut Gassel, manager of the Chip Card and Security ICs Business Unit at Infineon, in the same statement.
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