Luna Innovations Develops Technology to Enhance Cybersecurity
24 Maio 2012 - 12:35PM
Business Wire
Luna Innovations Incorporated (NASDAQ: LUNA), a leading player
in integrated circuits security, has developed technology that uses
reverse engineering of field-programmable gate array (FPGA)
bitstream design files to improve design integrity and further
enhance cybersecurity.
Luna makes it possible to perform high-reliability verification
of FPGA designs at a bitstream level to detect any malicious
functionality. This is particularly important to keep defense
microelectronic systems trusted, safe and mission ready.
FPGAs function as programmable processing chips and are widely
used in defense systems because commercially produced FPGAs are
affordable and customizable.
“Our technology is like a virus scan for field-programmable gate
array designs,” said Jonathan Graf, Director of Secure Computing
and Communications Technologies for Luna. “The FPGA is a
microelectronic device and the bitstream tells it what to do. Now,
our customers are able to directly verify that the bitstream does
what they want it to do and nothing else. Luna’s technology
provides the unprecedented ability to detect errors and potential
security compromises.”
About $4 billion in FPGAs are purchased each year for use in
computing and telecommunications systems.
Initially proven in the Defense Advanced Research Projects
Agency’s TRUST in Integrated Circuits program, Luna’s bitstream
conversion technology creates trust in FPGA designs by verifying
design integrity, ensuring no additional operations are performed,
and assuring that a bitstream-level design operates as the designer
intended.
The technology also has potential in commercial
applications.
An FPGA bitstream is a vendor‐specific binary format, and until
now there have not been sufficient methods to guarantee that it
contains exactly what a designer intended. Traditionally,
verification of the final design implementation is limited to spot
checking the design in hardware. Unfortunately, this type of
testing often cannot provide full coverage of a design, and cannot
fully address the potential for errors. This is of particular
concern to high‐reliability systems that must confirm that their
bitstream is exactly as intended.
In addition, as devices age and systems remain in use, it’s
critical to understand bitstream-level functions when designs are
transferred from old FPGAs to newer devices.
“In many instances, the design on an old FPGA has proven
reliable and effective and our technology allows the customer to
use the old design on a newer device,” Graf explains. “Often the
term ‘reverse engineering’ is seen in a negative light. In our
case, the technology is doing good.”
“Luna’s capabilities allow FPGA designs to be evaluated with a
significantly higher degree of confidence than previously
available,” said My Chung, CEO of Luna Innovations. “This is a
valuable benefit for our customers and illustrates one of our key
corporate growth strategies – to be the leading choice for
integrated circuits security for weapons systems.”
Over the past seven years Luna has won more than $20 million in
contracts related to the Defense Advanced Research Projects
Agency’s TRUST in Integrated Circuits program, which ensures the
trust of integrated circuits used in military systems that are
designed and fabricated under untrustworthy conditions.
About Luna Innovations
Luna Innovations Incorporated (www.lunainnovations.com) focuses
on sensing and instrumentation. Luna develops and manufactures
new-generation products for the healthcare, telecommunications,
energy and defense markets. The company's products are used to
measure, monitor, protect and improve critical processes in the
markets it serves. Through its disciplined commercialization
business model, Luna has become a recognized leader in
transitioning science to solutions.
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provision of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995,
including statements regarding, but not limited to: the uniqueness
of Luna’s technological capabilities, product capabilities, market
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and customer use. Statements that describe the company's business
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