With the emergence of wireless communications over the past decade we have witnessed an enormous increase in the number of connected mobile devices. These reach far beyond cellular phones and laptops. Today they include household appliances, certainly vehicles, RFID systems ranging from tolling to tracking nuclear waste and industrial controllers as well as power, gas and water meters.

All of these devices enable new and exciting capabilities, yet they also open up new avenues to hackers and organized crime. Most recently we have witnessed successful attacks on every single one of the above devices.

Revere Security is the only solution provider today that effectively addresses these challenges. Our Hummingbird HB-2 and Passerine ciphers along with our strong implementation capabilities and key management systems are unique in the world.

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Hummingbird HB-2, an authentication and encryption algorithm, is ideally suited for small, resource-constrained devices. Its hybrid design leverages the advantages of both block and stream ciphers. One of the most interesting features of Hummingbird HB-2 is its use of 16-bit words. It greatly minimizes data expansion and latency as well as power consumption. In addition, Hummingbird HB-2 encrypts and authenticates in a single pass. The cipher has been rigorously validated by some of the worlds leading cryptographers. In accordance with Kerckhoffs' Principle, Hummingbird HB-2 has been openly published for several years, which has added another valuable level of scrutiny to the cipher itself. No subexhaustive attacks have been found.

 

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Passerine is a lightweight public key encryption mechanism that is based on a hybrid, randomized variant of the Rabin public key encryption. As such it is provably secure and uses an innovative, highly efficient approach to decrease the actual implementation size, latency, message redundancy and encryption time. On resource-constrained platforms, Passerine offers a unique performance in that its encryption operation only consumes 750 bytes of code space on the TI MSP430 microcontroller and is more than five-times faster than the best RSA or ECC implementations with the same level of security.

RFID systems have been around for a long time. They are constantly gaining maturity and sophistication. At the same time new vulnerabilities that threaten process owners, asset operators and service providers, emerge rapidly.

At Revere Security we offer data encryption, authentication and cloaking solutions for passive and active RFID systems.

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With new and increasingly valuable services around the delivery and consumption of energy comes a great responsibility, namely the protection of critical infrastructure in many industrialized nations. The smart grid along with wirelessly-enabled gas and water meters can be among the prime targets of organized crime and terrorists.

Revere Security's Hummingbird HB-2 technology provides not just full privacy and data protection, but also authentication of smart meters to networks and backend systems.

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Today's vehicles are equipped with 80-100 microprocessors which often connect to a central computer and monitoring system. In addition to ensuring security and privacy, it is highly important to authenticate critical vehicle components through wireless microchips.

Revere Security offers symmetric and asymmetric security solutions to automotive clients. These include component validation, data encryption and wireless remote access security.

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