8 October 2017

The US Air Force Has a New Chip to Foster Secure Communications


The US Air Force has developed a new “Mini Crypto” chip that will allow hardware like unmanned aerial vehicles and explosive ordinance disposal robots to communicate and exchange data securely.

The chip is a self-contained encryption engine that is capable of creating a unique, session-based key that the receiving party needs to use to decrypt the message or data. The process meets the NSA’s stringent security standards, making it difficult and resource-intensive for other entities to access the information being relayed.

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