Programmable distributed personal security

Details Programmable distributed personal security Programmable distributed personal security

1994-06-28

1996-07-02

Cain, David C.

Cryptography

Cryptanalysis

380 52, H04L 900

Patent

active

055331238

ABSTRACT:
The present invention is embodied in a Secured Processing Unit (SPU) chip, a microprocessor designed especially for secure data processing. By integrating keys, encryption/decryption engines and algorithms in the SPU, the entire security process is rendered portable and easily distributed across physical boundaries. The invention is based on the orchestration of three interrelated systems: (i) detectors, which alert the SPU to the existence, and help characterize the nature, of a security attack; (ii) filters, which correlate the data from the various detectors, weighing the severity of the attack against the risk to the SPU's integrity, both to its secret data and to the design itself; and (iii) responses, which are countermeasures, calculated by the filters to be most appropriate under the circumstances, to deal with the attack or attacks present. The present invention, with wide capability in all three of the detectors, filters and responses, allows a great degree of flexibility for programming an appropriate level of security/policy into an SPU-based application.

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