EE Times notes some interesting product news involving chip maker ATMEL and Amazon, aka “the IoT’s back end.” According to the report, Amazon is partnering with ATMEL’s parent company, Microchip, to enable seamless provisioning of IoT devices with end to end encryption. The partnership will marry Microchip’s Atmel’s ECC508 chip to marry the company’s “Zero touch” platform with Amazon’s new(ish) “Just in Time Registration” service, which streamlines device activation. The partnership is designed to address some noted problems with secure IoT deployments. Namely: key generation on low power IoT devices, securing keys throughout long and complex manufacturing chain, securing communications between the IoT endpoint and the (cloud ) management server and then securing and managing the endpoint throughout its life. The ECC508 is designed to address a number of those challenges. It uses elliptic curve cryptography and is tamper resistant, with defenses against “microprobe, emissions analysis, timing, and other attacks.” Behind the scenes AWS;s Zero-touch secure […]
