New Products from Certicom Secure Low-Power Wireless Sensor Networks
April 03, 2006
Monday April 3, 6:00 am ET
Certicom Security for Sensor Networks enables networks to be scalable, mobile and self-configurable
MISSISSAUGA, ON, April 3 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ - Certicom Corp. (TSX: CIC - News) today launched Certicom Security for Sensor Networks, a software module and hardware IP core, that secures low-power, wireless sensor networks. The products use elliptic- curve cryptography (ECC) to add a provable identity to sensor devices, which provides security and reliability from design and development through to the manufacturing, deployment and upgrade of a sensor network.
Today's wireless sensor networks are generally small (fewer than 100 nodes) so symmetric cryptography with centralized control of security is sufficient. However, for sensor networks to reach their potential - to build large, self-healing networks that allow nodes to move as necessary - developers of microcontrollers and sensor networking stacks must move to public-key cryptography, which enables devices to interact and communicate securely. ECC provides more security per bit than other public-key cryptography schemes making it the only option that can meet the footprint and power limitations of a sensor network's constrained devices.
Source: http://biz.yahoo.com/
Certicom Security for Sensor Networks enables networks to be scalable, mobile and self-configurable
MISSISSAUGA, ON, April 3 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ - Certicom Corp. (TSX: CIC - News) today launched Certicom Security for Sensor Networks, a software module and hardware IP core, that secures low-power, wireless sensor networks. The products use elliptic- curve cryptography (ECC) to add a provable identity to sensor devices, which provides security and reliability from design and development through to the manufacturing, deployment and upgrade of a sensor network.
Today's wireless sensor networks are generally small (fewer than 100 nodes) so symmetric cryptography with centralized control of security is sufficient. However, for sensor networks to reach their potential - to build large, self-healing networks that allow nodes to move as necessary - developers of microcontrollers and sensor networking stacks must move to public-key cryptography, which enables devices to interact and communicate securely. ECC provides more security per bit than other public-key cryptography schemes making it the only option that can meet the footprint and power limitations of a sensor network's constrained devices.
Source: http://biz.yahoo.com/