Cryptography Research (CRI), a division of Rambus and
MStar Semiconductor, announced that MStar will license CRI’s CryptoFirewall
security technology for integration into its multimedia system-on-a-chip (SoC)
set-top box chips.
The advanced security core will help MStar’s customers
provide robust hardware security in their set-top box solutions.
Integrating strong security is crucial in our effort to
provide an all-in-one system-on-a-chip solution for the next generation of
set-top boxes,” said Philippe Notton, DTV marketing director of MStar.
The CryptoFirewall has an impressive track record, and
will help our next generation set-top box chips meet requirements for
protecting against piracy and other security challenges in the pay TV space,”
Notton added.
The CryptoFirewall core is an on-chip, hardware-based
security block that protects cryptographic keys and computations from attack.
Successfully deployed in over 100 million devices, CryptoFirewall
has helped eliminate signal theft in some of the world’s highest-threat
environments.
The CryptoFirewall core can prevent the theft of pay TV
broadcast signals, simplify compliance with content owners’ anti-piracy
requirements, and streamline product development.
MStar has a proven history of delivering end-to-end semiconductor
solutions for pay TV and various other consumer applications such as TV and
mobile phones,” said Paul Kocher, president and chief scientist at Cryptography
Research.
By Telecomlead.com Team
editor@telecomlead.com
