Quiddikey: The First Production-Proven HIS System
Intrinsic-ID Quiddikey™ provides cost-effective key storage to secure semiconductor products against cloning, tampering, theft-of-service and reverse engineering – without storing a key.
Secret key retrieval has become a simple cost/benefit calculation for copycats. Beyond security concerns, traditional key-storage approaches can also increase costs, negatively impact yield, delay time to market, limit flexibility and decrease reliability.
A new approach to secure key storage – called hardware intrinsic security, or HIS – extracts the key from the intrinsic properties of the device only when needed and overcomes the drawbacks of traditional key-storage approaches.
Quiddikey is the first production-proven HIS solution. Based on patented technology and industrialized through hundreds of man-years of R&D, Quiddikey offers a unique solution to today’s hardware security challenges.
Unparalleled Security for Secret Keys
Quiddikey offers the highest level of security available for secret keys: - The key is not stored in digital form on the device.
- The key is extracted from the device only when required.
- The key, once used, can be removed from all internal registers and memories.
Because no key is stored, attackers have nothing to find. Quiddikey offers secure key storage without storing the key.
Cost-Effective Implementation
Quiddikey uses standard components to implement its HIS system, so there are no expensive additional process steps, no impact on time-to-market.
- No test silicon is required.
- Design teams can evaluate Quiddikey for specific foundries and technology nodes at virtually no cost.
- The solution is ready to implement with the first introduction of a process or technology node – no waiting for specialized, “add-on” releases of process options.
Lifetime Reliability
Unlike other HIS solutions, Quiddikey is the result of years of research, development and comprehensive industrial testing in the world-renown Philips Labs, which has confirmed that Quiddikey maintains reliability under a broad range of stress factors including:
- Temperature
- Aging
- Voltage variations
- Electro-magnetic fields
Intrinsic-ID uses a unique 360° failure analysis, including accelerated lifetime tests that replicate the effects of decades of aging. The company incorporates the relevant stress conditions into its stringent product-quality release procedure, which is executed through continuous, fully automated stressing in certified Philips test facilities.
How Quiddikey Works
To learn more about how Intrinsic-ID Quiddikey works, download the Quiddikey Product Backgrounder.
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