Building silicon foundations for security

Rambus Blog, Feb. 01, 2016 – 

Paul Kocher, the chief scientist of Rambus' Cryptography Research division, recently presented a DesignCon 2016 keynote session that explored the crowded intersection of hardware, Moore's Law and cryptography. As Kocher notes, cryptographic limits have historically been constrained by a salient lack of computing power.

"[Following Moore's Law], more computing power enables much stronger algorithms," he explained. "[Concurrently], more robust computing power has also led to an increasing number of security breaches at all levels. In fact, within two years, approximately 90% of all IT networks will experience an IoT-based security breach."

This trend of insecurity can only be expected to continue, says Kocher, with analysts forecasting some 50 billion connected devices by 2020.