Atmel Launches New Security Product

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Atmel Corporation, a developer and manufacturer of advanced semiconductor solutions, has launched AT98SC032CT-USB, a fully-integrated solution designed to secure embedded systems.

The solution is based on Atmel’s smart card chip-design expertise and is intended for hardware security-solution integrators, including USB tokens, secure Flash drives and media centers. It is ideally suited for USB security devices used in computer security applications such as single sign-on, 2-factor authentication, web-portal strong-user authentication, secure login and digital rights management.

The AT98SC032CT-USB has a CCID-compliant, full-speed USB 2.0 interface and is recognised as a smart card by the host platform. This chip features an increased storage memory of 32KB with a password-protected file system and meets FIPS 140-2 requirements.

The AT98SC032CT-USB embeds complex firmware that provides advanced functionalities including strong authentication, one-time password generation, digital signature (3DES MAC, RSA PKCS#1, EC-DSA), data encryption (3DES, RSA PKCS#1), message digest (SHA1 & 256), random number generation and public key generation (RSA, ECC).

It also includes an administration application to manage the contents and configuration of the chip. This firmware makes the AT98SC032CT-USB perfectly adapted to PKCS#11 or MS-CAPI standard specifications which allows a straightforward integration into any application.

The product protects against goods counterfeiting, multimedia content copying and identity theft.