Encryption

Athena’s market leading public key cryptography accelerators are complemented by Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) and Data Encryption Standard (DES)/triple DES secret key cryptography accelerators for bulk data encryption. Athena also offers Message Digest 5 (MD5) and Secure Hash Algorithm (SHA-1/224/256/384/512) cryptographic hash accelerators, which are required for data integrity verification.

Data security applications require high-quality, cryptographic-grade random numbers to serve as secret key material, and for use as the basis for negotiating shared keys with other parties using public key cryptographic techniques. Cryptographic-grade numbers can only be produced by starting with non-deterministic sources of randomness, which means that cryptographic-grade random cannot be produced in software only. This makes the Athena RNG-A100 hardware random number generator “must have” technology.

Athena’s cryptography accelerators are offered with ‘native’ interfaces to simplify integration of the accelerators for bump-in-the-wire functionality. Athena also offers the TAI-A100 bus interface for microprocessor bus integration of the TeraFire^® family of cryptography accelerators. For more information, contact Athena.

Key Benefits

• FIPS compliant cores (AES, 3DES, RNG, SHA)
• RFC 1321 compliant MD5
• Rapid delivery via verified firm macro
• Synthesized to your target library and performance requirements
• Fully verified functionality and timing
• Compiled RTL simulation model included
• High density, low power

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