Electronic Design

Cryptographic Fundamentals

Members can download this article in PDF format. The security of cryptographic applications critically relies on symmetric keys and private keys that are continually kept secret. The method used to ...
Design-Reuse

FortifyIQ's Secure Hybrid Crypto Box IP Core with Classical and Post-Quantum Cryptography for Embedded Systems (AES, HMAC-SHA2, ECC/RSA etc., PQC) (SCA,DPA,FIA secure)

FortifyIQ’s Hybrid Crypto Box IP core is a comprehensive, high-efficiency cryptographic solution that combines RSA, ECC, AES, and SHA-2/HMAC with a bu ...
Threat Post

Timing attack in Google Keyczar library

I recently found a security flaw in the Google Keyczar crypto library. The impact was that an attacker could forge signatures for data that was “signed” with the SHA-1 HMAC algorithm (the default ...
EDN

Cryptography for embedded systems – Part 3: Choosing cryptographic algorithms

In the last section we discussed the potential for optimizing algorithms, which can be done, but sometimes may not result in the type of performance required. As was mentioned, you can always move the ...