Recode’s Arik Hesseldahl recently noted that chip industry is running up against some “truly fundamental” limits. “At the five-nanometer juncture — due maybe in 2021, give or take — the outlook [of Moore’s Law] has tended to get incomprehensibly fuzzy. At that size, elements on the chip would be about twice the size of a strand of DNA,” he explained. “Smaller than that, the design features on a chip become no bigger than 10 individual atoms. At that scale, electrons start to behave unreliably: The laws of classical physics give way to the infamously uncertain rules of the quantum scale.”
Security
A closer look at Android Pay and tokenization
Last week, Rambus confirmed that Bell ID would be supporting the integration of Android Pay for international issuing banks, payment schemes and processors. Today, we’d like to take a closer look at Android Pay for the benefit of our readers. Launched in September 2015, Android Pay can perhaps best be described as a mobile payment solution that offers consumers a simple and secure way of buying items with their Android-based devices.
CryptoManager enables FaaS with in-field provisioning
Rambus has announced that its CryptoManager security platform now supports in-field feature and service provisioning, alongside SoC management and device personalization capabilities. “In-field feature and service provisioning enables complete silicon-to-cloud functionality to support the growing requirements of trusted applications,” said Dr. Martin Scott, senior VP and GM of the Rambus Cryptography Research division. “These include secure mobile banking, identity and entertainment, along with IoT device security.”
Rambus’ Bell ID to support Android Pay
Rambus’ Bell ID has announced that it will be supporting the integration of Android Pay for international issuing banks, payment schemes and processors. “Mobile payments is a big priority for Google and we’re working to support a wide range of issuers to make Android Pay available to everyone,” said Pali Bhat, Senior Director, Product Management, Google. “Bell ID’s integration takes us one step further in this direction.”
Side-channel attacks target Mr. Robot
This past summer, Engadget’s Violet Blue compiled a list of the top Mr. Robot hacks. These include deanonymizing Tor traffic, the installation of an Android rootkit, compromising an HVAC system using a Raspberry Pi, Bluetooth and text message spoofing, as well as the deployment of a keystroke-injection attack tool.
Cryptography and the Internet of Everything (IoE)
Ernest Worthman of Semiconductor Engineering recently noted that the rapidly evolving Internet of Everything (IoE) requires a “new breed” of networks to handle data from billions of devices quickly and securely. “The terms ‘high performance’ and ‘high security’ are generally incompatible in the networking world because the security technology in use today bogs down network performance,” he explained.
