Source: Kilopass
December 3, 2007

Kilopass and Certicom Give Technical Talk on Hardware Security Requirements for Embedded Encryption Key Storage

IP 2007 Conference, Thursday, December 6, 2007, Grenoble, France

Who/What:
At the IP 2007 Conference in Grenoble, France, Certicom Corp. (TSX: CIC) and Kilopass Technology Inc., a leading CMOS Logic Non-Volatile Memory (NVM) Intellectual Property (IP) supplier, will present on Hardware Security Requirements for Embedded Encryption Key Storage. The technical presentation will be given by Craig Rawlings of Kilopass Technology Inc. and Mike Bursell of Certicom.

Background Information
In November, Kilopass and Certicom announced a partnership to deliver comprehensive security for High-Bandwidth Digital Content Protection (HDCP) applications. Certicom® KeyInject™ is being integrated into the new Kilopass XPM Xtend™ memory IP to protect against security breaches during the HDCP chip manufacturing process to automate key logistics, diminish liability, improve tracking and reduce costs related to chip manufacturing and silicon testing of HDCP keys.
This solution is important given the growing number of extremely expensive security breach penalties involving HDTVs, recording and playback devices and the manufacturing processes that create these products.

When:
Thursday, 6 December, 2007 12:45pm

Where:
Room 1, World Trade Center
5 place Robert Schuman
Grenoble, FRANCE

Information
For more information about Kilopass, please visit www.kilopass.com .
For more information about the IP 2007 Conference, please visit http://www.design-reuse.com/ip07/location/grenoble.php/

About Certicom KeyInject and XPM Xtend
Working closely, Certicom and Kilopass provide a secure path for sensitive cryptographic keys directly from the licensor of the key through to the target device. Keys that are unique to individual devices need both a secure NVM storage technology and a solution that protects these keys throughout the manufacturing supply chain. Combined, KeyInject and XPM Xtend provide security for modern semiconductor manufacturing processes as well as at the device level with physical layer security that protects key information inside the target device. XPM Xtend is supported for mainstream TSMC process technologies between 180nm and 65nm today.
For more detailed information online, the datasheet for Certicom KeyInject is at http://www.certicom.com/index.php?action=product,keyinjecthdcp_home, and the datasheet for XPM Xtend is at: http://www.kilopass.com/public/XPM_Xtend_DS-1.pdf.

About Certicom
Certicom protects the value of content, applications and devices with government-approved security. Adopted by the National Security Agency (NSA) for government communications, Elliptic Curve Cryptography (ECC) provides the most security per bit of any known public-key scheme. As the global leader in ECC, Certicom security offerings are currently licensed to more than 300 customers including General Dynamics, Motorola, Oracle, Research In Motion and Unisys. Founded in 1985, Certicom's corporate offices are in Mississauga, Ontario, Canada with worldwide sales and marketing headquarters in Reston, Virginia and offices in the U.S., Canada, Europe and China. Visit www.certicom.com.

About Kilopass Technology
Kilopass Technology, Inc., a fast-growing supplier of embedded non-volatile memory intellectual property, leverages standard logic CMOS processes to deliver one-time programmable structures based on its extra-permanent memory (XPM) technology. The memory arrays can be used for the storage of firmware, security codes, calibration data and other application critical information. Kilopass is headquartered at 3333 Octavius Dr. Suite 101, Santa Clara, CA 95054, USA. For more information, please visit http://www.kilopass.com, call (408) 980-8808 or email info@kilopass.com.