Cryptography Research, Inc. is a

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based cryptography company specializing in applied cryptographic engineering, including technologies for building tamper-resistant semiconductors. It was purchased on June 6, 2011 by

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for $342.5M. The company licenses patents for protecting cryptographic devices against

power analysis Power analysis is a form of side channel attack in which the attacker studies the power consumption of a cryptographic hardware device. These attacks rely on basic physical properties of the device: semiconductor devices are governed by the ...

attacks. The company's CryptoFirewall-brand ASIC cores are used in pay TV conditional access systems and anti-counterfeiting applications. CRI also developed BD+, a security component in the Blu-ray disc format, and played a role in the format war between

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and

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. The company's services group assists with security testing, disaster recovery, and training. Cryptography Research protects its core operations from outside attack by maintaining a secured local network that is not connected to the

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at all. Employees who need to work with sensitive data have two computers on their desks — one to access the secure network, and a separate computer to access the Internet."How one company stays safe with two networks"

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, March 30, 2010.

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* Cryptography companies {{crypto-stub