Secure Products

Security is an ever-present concern in today's connected world. Hardware security acceleration is a requirement, not just for the server, but for cost and power sensitive mobile terminals such as PDAs and phones too. Hardware security functions provide many benefits over software security functions including increased throughput, and reduced latency, power, CPU load, and clock frequency.

Athena helps you realize these benefits with its comprehensive TeraFire® family of hardware security functions. The TeraFire family encompasses public key cryptography, secret key cryptography, secure hashes, and random number generation. Athena is ready to help you analyze your security hardware accelerator requirements and customize a package of functions for your application.

Public Key Cryptography
Public key cryptography is a crucial component of security for both networking and e-commerce applications. Public key cryptography requires high precision modular exponentiation and multiplication operations, mathematically intensive problems that bring the microprocessors found in servers and mobile terminals to their knees.

Athena's TeraFire public key cryptography solutions showcase the strongest features of Athena's proprietary high-precision multiplier technology: speed, power efficiency, and cost effectiveness.
Athena supports your product succession strategy with three distinct product families of TeraFire® public key cryptography solutions, optimized for applications ranging from battery powered mobile terminals to ultra-high-performance servers.

TERAFIRE T5000 EMBEDDED PUBLIC KEY PRODUCT BRIEF

TERAFIRE FAMILY PRODUCT BRIEF

Secret Key Cryptography
Athena's market leading public key cryptography accelerators are complemented by Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) and Triple Data Encryption Standard (DES/3DES) secret key cryptography accelerators for bulk data encryption.

ADVANCED ENCRYPTION STANDARD (AES) PRODUCT BRIEF

TRIPLE-DATA ENCRYPTION STANDARD (3DES/DES) PRODUCT BRIEF

Cryptographic Hash Functions
Cryptographic hash functions are required for data integrity verification. Athena offers Message Digest 5 (MD5) and Secure Hash Algorithm (SHA) cryptographic hash accelerators that support SHA-1, SHA-224, SHA-256, SHA-384, and SHA-512.

SECURE HASH ALGORITHM (SHA) PRODUCT BRIEF

MESSAGE DIGEST 5 (MD5) PRODUCT BRIEF

Random Number Generation
Data security applications require high-quality, cryptographic-grade random numbers to serve as secret key material, and to use as the basis for negotiating shared keys with other parties using public key cryptographic techniques. Cryptographic-grade random numbers can only be produced by starting with non-deterministic sources of randomness, which means that cryptographic-grade random numbers cannot be produced in software only. This makes hardware random number generation a "must have" technology.

RANDOM NUMBER GENERATOR (RNG) PRODUCT BRIEF

 

 

 

 

 
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