Atmel Wins Common Criteria Certification For Secure Signature Generation IC.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers SAN JOSE San Jose, city, United States San Jose (sănəzā`, săn hōzā`), city (1990 pop. 782,248), seat of Santa Clara co., W central Calif.; founded 1777, inc. 1850. , Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 13, 2001 Atmel(R) Corporation (Nasdaq:ATML ATML Automatic Test Markup Language ATML Automated Test Markup Language ) today announced that one of its standard secure products, the AT90SP0801 Secure Signature Generation Chip, has completed rigorous Common Criteria certification to Evaluation Assurance Level The Evaluation Assurance Level (EAL1 through EAL7) of an IT product or system is a numerical grade assigned following the completion of a Common Criteria security evaluation, an international standard in effect since 1999. 3+. The AT90SP0801 is the industry's leading embedded security chip. It has been deployed in millions of IBM personal computers since 1999, including their NetVista(TM) desktops and ThinkPad(R) notebooks. Common Criteria is based upon the ISO/IEC ISO/IEC International Organization for Standardization/International Electrotechnical Commission (ITU-T M 3000) 15408 international standard for both evaluating and certifying IT security products and is currently recognized in 14 countries worldwide. Independent testing laboratories use common test methods from a common criteria standard to verify that security implementations are correct, complete and compliant to specifications. This methodical testing establishes a high degree of confidence in the security of this device against a range of attacks by those with malicious intent. This certification assures the security-minded customer that there is no need to risk storing secret cryptographic keys in external memory or on the hard drive because the AT90SP0801 provides a protected environment within its own confines. This is a clear advantage over the much less secure software-based solutions. Chris Baumann, Atmel's director of BiCMOS and secure products, comments, "We are very pleased to receive this Common Criteria certification. This is another example of Atmel's commitment to developing secure devices that help protect data and identify users. As hackers become more and more sophisticated the environment that protects personal and business data must be made more secure. This device will give our customers the confidence in data integrity that software-based systems simply can not provide." The AT90SP0801 represents a significant milestone for Atmel and underscores our commitment to developing security chips that support industry-wide standards and certifications. As a member of the Trusted Computing Platform Alliance (TCPA (Trusted Computer Platform Alliance, TCPA Program Office, Intel Corporation, Hillsboro, OR, www.trustedcomputing.org) A membership organization founded in 1999 by Microsoft, HP, Intel, Compaq and IBM. It was superseded by the Trusted Computing Group (see TCG). ), Atmel will provide a Trusted Platform Module In computing, Trusted Platform Module (TPM) is both the name of a published specification detailing a microcontroller that can store secured information, as well as the general name of implementations of that specification, often called "TPM chip" or "TPM Security Device" (Dell). (TPM (1) See TP monitor. (2) (Transactions Per Minute) The number of transactions processed within one minute. See TPS. (3) (Trusted Platform M ) certified under the auspices of Common Criteria as well as the U.S. government standard FIPS-140. For more information on Common Criteria certification please visit www.commoncriteria.org. About Atmel Founded in 1984, Atmel Corporation is headquartered in San Jose, Calif., with manufacturing facilities in North America and Europe. Atmel designs, manufactures and markets worldwide, advanced logic, mixed-signal, nonvolatile memory and RF semiconductors. Atmel is also a leading provider of system-level integration semiconductor solutions using CMOS (Complementary Metal Oxide Semiconductor) Pronounced "c-moss." The most widely used integrated circuit design. It is found in almost every electronic product from handheld devices to mainframes. , BiCMOS, bipolar SiGe, and high-voltage BCDMOS process technologies. Note to Editors: Atmel, the Atmel logo and combinations thereof and others contained herein, are trademarks of Atmel Corporation. Terms and product names in this document may be the trademarks of others. NetVista(TM) and ThinkPad(R) are trademarks of IBM (International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY, www.ibm.com) The world's largest computer company. IBM's product lines include the S/390 mainframes (zSeries), AS/400 midrange business systems (iSeries), RS/6000 workstations and servers (pSeries), Intel-based servers (xSeries) . Information Atmel product information may be retrieved at http://www.atmel.com |
|
||||||||||||||
Printer friendly
Cite/link
Email
Feedback
Reader Opinion