Intrinsic ID joins DARPA Toolbox Initiative

Author: EIS Release Date: Aug 11, 2021

Intrinsic ID, Physical Unclonable Function (PUF) security IP specialist, has had its ID QuiddiKey hardware IP and Apollo FPGA IP adopted for  the DARPA Toolbox Initiative, which provides DARPA researchers open licensing opportunities with commercial technology vendors.

 

Intrinsic ID joins DARPA Toolbox Initiative

QuiddiKey IP can be applied to almost any chip – from MCUs to high-performance SoCs, to secure the products with internally generated, device-unique cryptographic keys.

 

It uses the inherently random start-up values of SRAM as a PUF, which generates the entropy required for a strong hardware root of trust. Since SRAM is a standard component available upon initial release of any process technology, the IP can be used with any foundry and process-node technology.

 

 

QuiddiKey has been deployed and proven in hundreds of millions of devices certified by NIST, EMVCo, Visa, CC EAL6+, PSA, ioXt, and governments across the globe.

 

 

 

Apollo FPGA IP is a “soft” PUF solution that enables defense contractors and other DARPA funded research entities to give FPGAs a unique identity and to secure them at every phase of the supply chain.

 

Apollo combines a Butterfly PUF with Intrinsic ID’s helper data algorithms to intrinsically generate the entropy needed for a strong hardware root of trust.

 

Keys derived from Apollo are volatile and derived only when required, providing a significantly high security assurance.

 

Since Apollo is part of the FPGA configuration file it is a “soft PUF” implementation and security functionality can be retrofitted on existing or even deployed devices, enabling remote “brownfield” installation of a hardware root of trust.