Neubiberg, Germany – March 31st, 2014 –Infineon Technologies introduced its OPTIGA™ Trust P, a programmable hardware-based solution for improved security of electronic devices in connected systems. The addition to the OPTIGA Trust family provides robust device authentication, protects computing systems from both intentional attacks and accidental damage from user error, and enhances security and privacy of stored data.
Allowing the connection to only known, legitimate devices is a key element to any system security, and it becomes crucial when there are more and more connected devices used by enterprises and consumers. By integrating the OPTIGA Trust P into their designs, electronics manufacturers add a security safe to their embedded system.
The OPTIGA Trust P generates and securely storesencryption keys for one-way and mutual authentication, thereby allowing to protect the device from malware, and to control access mechanisms for secure software updates.The programmability of the OPTIGA Trust P makes it a highly flexible solution, enabling these features to be adapted by a wide variety of connected systems. Any product that stores and exchanges confidential data – whether used in smart homes or factories – can rely on the encrypted communications capability of OPTIGA Trust P to enable information privacy. This helps to defend fromat tackers trying to obtain personal or company data or attempting to tamper with programming through Internet connections or machine-to-machine (M2M) communications links.
“The new addition to our OPTIGA Trust product series goes beyond brand protection and fighting counterfeit electronics which harm both ordinary people and companies,” said Juergen Spaenkuch, Vice President and head of Platform Security at Infineon Technologies. “It helps protect industrial electronics systems from risks of sabotage, provide secure updates of software and improve security through access control to increasing connected systems like the Internet of Things (IoT).”
OPTIGA™ Trust P Features
The OPTIGA Trust P is a Common Criteria EAL 5+(high)certified secure trust anc-hor that addresses counterfeiting, privacy and security concerns. It uses public key cryptography to support both one-way and mutual authentication for anti-cloning applications. On-board key generation, key storage and secure key exchange allow creation of a secure communications channel and encryption of transmitted data. This can provide data privacy as well as the information verification between senders and receivers. The integrated key management and the access controls expand the use of the secure channel to encompass protection by permitting for secure remoteupdates and local access restrictions to the devices.
As a programmable device, the OPTIGA Trust P is very flexible and easy to integrate into existing systems. It includes a JavaCard operating system to run security applets that can be configured for the specific needs of the system. Infineon providesthe reference JavaCard security applets for most common functions, host code, and development tools to minimize development efforts.
Product Data, Availability
The OPTIGA Trust P SLJ 52ACAauthentication chip is offered in a VQFN-32 (5mm x 5mm) package, with 150 kB memory. It runs the JavaCard OS, supportsECC, RSA, AES, TDES and SHA cryptography and its system interface is an ISO7816 UART (400 kbps data rate).
