Austin, Texas, USA. March 5, 2012 — Encryption security software company, MerlinCryption LLC, is helping OEM developers to cut the risk of cloning, software compromise, physical machine compromise, and man-in-the-middle attacks with a new encryption solution platform specifically designed for the embedded device and M2M market.
MerlinCryption develops what it calls ‘smart world’ solutions to protect against cyber theft and cloning in diverse machine-to-machine (M2M) environments. The new platform, MerlinM2M, delivers dynamically changeable, scalable keys that are said to be significantly larger than others in the market; a parameter-controlled, scriptable key and password generator; a parameter-controlled smart encryption engine; and flexible multi-factor authentication.
A parameter-controlled key generator has the unprecedented ability to initiate unpredictable and changing keys up to 2Gb, and proliferates available keys-for-use by multiple-factors of billions of keys. Each key exists only until encryption is complete, at which point the platform deletes the key and scrubs the memory. Although keys can be massive, the platform reportedly achieves sub-second speed, working under-the-hood to leverage productivity and invulnerability in embedded environments.
OEMs gain additional security benefit from the platform’s multi-factor dynamic authentication component, which is based on ‘temporary’ factors, as well as known constant factors. Non-linear and environmental factors not only expand developer options, but also enable users to choose, change, and increase or decrease these factors, on demand. The authentication incorporates an optional SHA-2 hash.
The MerlinM2M platform is run by a scripted controller that essentially ‘wraps’ the process into a tightly customised and impenetrable sequence of execution. User-defined scripts dynamically calculate and feed parameters to the algorithm, achieving encryption that cannot be predicted by hackers.
MerlinWrap allows every embedded solution to easily be designed according to the individual organisation’s security needs and product structure. The encryption components of the platform are customised, unique to the OEM’s machine portfolio, and not interoperable with any standard or other custom version.
The platform is secured by MerlinCryption’s algorithm, which is not based on mathematical technique and is not subject to statistical analysis. The encryption engine has the ability to produce a different encrypted transmission every time, even when the machine repeats the same data, key, and password input. The encryption is HIPAA compliant, OFAC compliant and BIS/NSA approved for export.
MerlinCryption LLC develops solutions to protect against cyber theft and cloning in diverse M2M environments. Its technology secures dynamic end-to-end data for smart phone, smart home, smart-grid, V2V, medical device, industry, and extraordinary emerging technologies. The unprecedented encryption platform protects data-at-rest, data-in-motion, data-in-use, and data-in-change as it is created, viewed, edited, shared, stored and moved across communications channels.
