November 4, 2011
Keeping The Bad Guys At Bay
Whether we like it or not, security is becoming a bigger and bigger concern in every aspect of our designs. In this week’s Fish Fry I chat with Paul Kocher (President of Cryptography Research Inc.) about what we can do to keep our systems safe and thwart those bad guys (for now).
I also have another Spartan-6 SP-01 Evaluation kit to give away this week, but you’ll have to listen find out how to win.
Channels
Embedded. FPGA. Semiconductor. Software.
Fish Fry Links - November 4, 2011
More information about Cryptography Research Inc. (1)
More information about Cryptography Research Inc. (2)
New Chalk Talk: Scalable Smart Debugging With ZeBu-Server
Fish Fry Executive Interviews
John Bruggeman, Former CMO - Cadence Design Systems
Darrin Billerbeck, CEO - Lattice Semiconductor
Lauro Rizzatti, Vice President of Marketing, EVE
Bill Neifert, CTO - Carbon Design Systems
Sean Dart, CEO - Forte Design Systems
Kapil Shankar, CEO - SiliconBlue
Comments:
Posted on November 04, 2011 at 4:47 PM
It goes without saying that security is huge concern in our designs today. I chat with Paul Kocher (President of Cryptography Research Inc) in this week's Fish Fry about this very thing. Where do you see the biggest security threats coming from?
Posted on November 04, 2011 at 10:45 PM
I can't say I've ever had the pleasure of working on a project worth hacking or stealing. But one thought I've always had is that there is no guarantees whether it be software or hardware that will prevent hackers from getting something that is valuable or interesting. As long as there's something of interest someone will put the time or money into devising a way of getting access. It also seems that there's a certain segment that try harder just because it's more of a challenge and at the end of the day it's an achievement.I've always felt the best defense is to invest just enough time and effort to defend your project against the majority of attacks, as well as the casual tinkerer and to make it such that the gain from breaking the system is less than the investment to break it.
Mark Smith
Posted on November 09, 2011 at 7:00 AM
The most serious threats are coming from the inside. Cryptography is a defence for such threats