• Cryptographically Secure Physically Unclonable Microchips

The main role of smartcards and RFIDs is to provide identification and authentication. However, all the existing smartcards and RFID chips can be cloned by the street hackers. Street hackers can always find an easy way to extract and copy all the card’s secrets onto another card thus faking the legitimate one. It is our firm belief that half-measures relying their security merely on the difficulty of extracting the secret keys out of the microchips will all fail in the real world.

In order to satisfy their intended purpose, smartcard and RFID chips must be cryptographically secure and physically unclonable. These qualities are essential for securing access control, item tracking, key distribution, identity cards, healthcare cards, currency notes, certificates, government and corporate documents, medical products, Digital Rights Management (DRM), Digital Video Broadcasting (DVB), compact discs, personal role radios and all other kinds of civil and military applications.

VEST Corporation is currently in the ASIC prototyping stage developing its unique Cryptographically Secure Physically Unclonable Microchip solution for the smartcard and RFID identification and authentication markets. These chips are also the missing link on the way to enriching economies with secure global digital money.

• Hassle Free Cryptography

Anticipating the future demand for state enforced complete encryption of all the corporate internet communications, VEST Corporation is developing a next generation hassle-free cryptographic solution for the businesses. It is known as the PureNoise project intended to free the users from the hassle of key and certificate management, encryption and message integrity verification.

• EnRUPT

EnRUPT is a new secure software and hardware efficient block/stream cipher/hash/RNG/MAC algorithm. It is by far the simplest cipher ever made. It replaces a web of components with a single most simple and most solid component thus simplifying and securing the complete system further.

EnRUPT was first published at the SASC workshop in Lausanne in February 2008. Although officially it is not a product that the company is selling, the company is using it as a clear demonstration of the quality and superiority of its tools and methods. EnRUPT has raised the bar of cryptographic design to a completely new level.

VEST Corporation has submitted EnRUPT to the NIST SHA-3 competition. If accepted and successful, it has a potential of becoming a global cryptographic standard, thus continuously promoting the company and all its products at no cost.