Cryptography
Quantum Computing is Decades Faster than the Best Supercomputers
Quantum computers represent a profound leap in computational capabilities, fundamentally different from traditional supercomputers. While supercomputers rely on traditional binary logic, quantum computers exploit the principles of quantum mechanics, enabling them to compute certain problems exponentially faster. Performance of Supercomputers vs Quantum Computers In 2023 Google scientists reported in a study that it completed a…
Read MoreProtecting Operational Technology from Quantum Computing
Protecting OT from Quantum Computing What is Quantum Computing? Quantum computing leverages the principles of quantum mechanics to perform complex calculations far more efficiently than classical computers. Unlike classical bits, which represent data as 0 or 1, quantum bits (qubits) can exist in multiple states simultaneously due to superposition. This, along with entanglement—where qubits become…
Read MoreRipple20 Vulnerabilities
For anyone who follows security and the IoT, the recently identified “Ripple20” vulnerabilities revealed by the Israeli firm JSOF will not be a surprise. However, as the number of connected devices continues to grow exponentially, what these recent flaws dramatically showcase is the extent to which we are becoming reliant on IoT devices in both…
Read MoreEvaluate Us Your Way: Free SecureRF Security SDKs Available on the Platform of Your Choice
We provide software development kits (SDKs) for a multitude of processors, microcontrollers (MCUs) and development boards so you can evaluate SecureRF’s cryptographic methods on the platform of your choice. Our SDKs contain our libraries compiled for your target processor, along with example source code in C, sample keys, certificates, and digital signatures. SDKs created for…
Read MoreFuture-proof TCU-ECU security for automotive systems
By: Khaldoun Albarazi, Market Development Engineer, STMicroelectronics and Drake Smith, Vice President of Engineering, SecureRF Developing and providing connected systems in automobiles is a high growth, exciting market–with a problem. Security is increasingly important yet many of the devices in these systems are vulnerable. One of the issues is that current security methods, such as ECC and RSA, are…
Read MoreWalnutDSA Presented at NIST’s First PQC Standardization Conference
On April 11, NIST held their first Post-Quantum Cryptography (PQC) Standardization Conference, an important milestone in the project and the effort to find and standardize quantum-resistant security solutions. More about this project and SecureRF’s involvement can be found here. The workshop brought together presenters of more than 60 submitted solutions to NIST’s call for quantum-resistant,…
Read MoreNIST Post-Quantum Cryptography Standardization Project and SecureRF
Quantum computing is moving from theory to reality. MIT and commercial entities including IBM, Microsoft, and Google have already delivered elementary quantum computing platforms. When large-enough quantum computers are built, known algorithms will be able to weaken or break most of the public-key methods now in use. Concerns over the security threat this represents are…
Read MoreInterview: Louis Parks on “Securing Our Future” with Peggy Smedley
Louis Parks (CEO, SecureRF) recently appeared on The Peggy Smedley Show podcast (Episode 545). In a segment titled “Securing Our Future,” Parks covered the history of public-key security, the importance of securing low-resource processors, and SecureRF’s future-proof authentication and data protection solutions for 8-, 16-, and 32-bit processors. Parks also explained the threat quantum computers pose…
Read MoreNIST Accepts SecureRF’s WalnutDSA for Evaluation
SecureRF’s Walnut Digital Signature Algorithm (WalnutDSA) has been accepted by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) for evaluation as a standard for post-quantum, public-key cryptography. NIST expects to perform multiple rounds of evaluation over a period of three to five years on all of the methods submitted. WalnutDSA is a fast, easy-to-implement, low-energy solution…
Read MoreNew Paper: Kayawood Key Agreement Protocol
SecureRF has published a new paper, “Kayawood, a Key Agreement Protocol,” which introduces a group-theoretic key agreement protocol that leverages the known NP-Hard shortest word problem (among others) to provide an Elgamal-style, Diffie-Hellman-like method. The paper also discusses the implementation of and behavioral aspects of Kayawood, introduces new methods to obfuscate braids using Stochastic Rewriting, and…
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