NXP has licensed technology which will protect chips and systems from counterfeiting and IP theft.
The semiconductor company has licensed embedded security IP from Intrinsic-ID, which it claimed will protect silicon-based systems against cloning, tampering, theft-of-service and reverse engineering.
“Our collaboration with Intrinsic-ID allows us to stay in the forefront of security for eGovernment products, conditional access management systems for Pay TV and authentication solutions for electronic devices and peripherals,” said Guenter Schlatte, v-p and general manager, secure identity at NXP.
The technology in question is often called hardware intrinsic security (HIS) is a new approach to secure key storage. This approach allows a device to generate a secret key only when needed and power down with no key present.
Called Quiddikey, a security feature of the approach is that no key is stored.
“Through this partnership, NXP will be able to implement Quiddikey, the first production-proven HIS solution, to achieve unparalleled security levels because the secret key is not present when the device is switched off,” said Daniël Schobben, CEO of Intrinsic-ID.