Cloakware Heads off AACS-Style Cracks with White-Box Cryptography.

HD-DVD Crack Underscores Need for Robust Software Protection for Digital Content

LAS VEGAS -- Cloakware Inc., the world's leading provider of products and services to protect digital assets, today announced that, with its White-Box Cryptography technology and software protection products, it is able to head off key lifting attacks such as those currently threatening the Advanced Access Content System (AACS) used for HD-DVD copy protection. Cloakware Security Suite, which is installed on IPTV systems, games, as well as Digital Rights Management (DRM) and other applications, prevents keys from being obtained in memory and defends against other reverse engineering and tampering attacks. For this reason, Cloakware protects more than 500 million PCs, portable devices, mobile phones and set-top boxes.

The recent crack AACS used on HD-DVDs has shone a spotlight on the vulnerability of cryptographic keys in memory and the risk this creates for the content and playback software. Cloakware identified the potential for this kind of hack in the 1990s and developed the White-Box Cryptography solution to ensure keys are protected at all times - even from an attack in memory. Cloakware Security Suite's automated tools allow customers to create diverse and renewable software instances, thereby further reducing the impact of any single crack against one version of playback software.

"The entertainment and technology industries have worked hard to develop core rules for protecting digital rights and the software that enforces those rights," said Alec Main, CTO of Cloakware. "Meeting these 'Robustness Rules' are key requirements for software ISVs and platform OEMs, which is why so many top brands in these industries turn to us to make sure they meet or exceed the security standards. With our progressive and proven approach to securing software, our customers know they have the protection, mitigation and response mechanisms to head off this type of attack."

About the Cloakware Security Suite

Cloakware Security Suite offers the most comprehensive range of software protection techniques available on the market today. This collection of automated tools and techniques enables developers to protect their application code against reverse engineering, tampering and automated attacks. Applications protected using Cloakware Security Suite can be deployed on untrusted hosts and in hostile environments like the Internet, concealing proprietary algorithms and secrets, including cryptographic keys, embedded in the software. More than 500 million software clients have already been commercially deployed worldwide using the Cloakware Security Suite.

By using Cloakware Security Suite, protection is built in during the development process so that it is inseparable from the application, making it far more effective than products that are added on after the application is developed or perimeter based security offerings. In addition, security can be re-enforced by layering on multiple techniques from the many available in the Suite. Protection can even be customized to the client level - called diversity - by creating instances of the application that are structurally different but functionally identical, to prevent automated attacks and direct access attacks based on differential analysis of software.

About Cloakware

Cloakware is the world's leading provider of products and services to protect digital assets. The company's software protection and anti-tamper solutions protect software, media, passwords and data from piracy and unauthorized access and use. Cloakware solutions are on more than 500 million devices, protecting the assets of some of the world's largest, most recognizable and technologically advanced companies. Cloakware's patented code transformation technology takes software protection to the next-level. Unlike after-fact protection techniques of yester-year, Cloakware's integrated software protection makes security inseparable from software. Cloakware's reverse-engineering protection combined with break-through White-Box Cryptography delivers unmatched security. Partnering with Microsoft and in collaboration with Intel, Cloakware helps consumer electronics and Fortune 1000 companies and Federal agencies all benefit from reduced development costs, improved time to market and mitigated risks. The company is headquartered in Vienna, Va., and has offices in Ottawa, Canada and the UK, and regional sales offices throughout the US.