February 25, 2009
Intrinsic-ID expands industry leadership role in brand protection technology
CTO Pim Tuyls to lead new Technology Advisory Board and present at Embedded World 2009 Exhibition and Conference
EINDHOVEN, THE NETHERLANDS, February 25, 2009 - Intrinsic-ID, an emerging intellectual property (IP) and services company offering security solutions, today announced it has formed a Technology Advisory Board (TAB), bringing together top technologists and experts in the fields of security and cryptography to ensure the company stays at the forefront of brand protection technology. The TAB will report to Intrinsic-ID’s CTO, Dr. Pim Tuyls, and meet several times throughout the year to expand on the vision for the company, key storage and brand protection solutions. Dr. Tuyls will be sharing his technology vision for physically unclonable key storage solutions at the upcoming Embedded World 2009 Exhibition and Conference on Tuesday, March 3, in Nuremberg, Germany.
Members of Intrinsic-ID's TAB:
Dr. Pim Tuyls, Chief Technology Officer, Intrinsic-ID, The Netherlands
Dr. Tuyls initiated work on Physically Unclonable Functions (PUFs) within Philips Research in 2002. PUFs are now at the heart of Intrinsic-ID’s technology development. As a principal scientist, he managed the cryptography cluster in Philips Research in which the initial research work on PUFs was carried out. Later, he transferred this work to Intrinsic-ID and headed the technology development. Since 2004, Dr. Tuyls is a visiting professor at the COSIC institute of the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven. His inventions have resulted in numerous patents. He is widely acclaimed for his work in the security field and PUFs in particular. Several of Dr. Tuyls’ papers relating to PUF's have been published at leading security conferences. He co-authored the book "Security with Noisy Data", which was published by Springer in 2007.
Prof. Dr. Christof Paar, Chair for Embedded Security, University of Bochum, Germany
Prof. Dr. Paar holds the Chair for Embedded Security at the University of Bochum, Germany. From 1994 to 2001, he was a professor at Worcester Polytechnic Institute in Massachusetts. He co-founded the CHES (Cryptographic Hardware and Embedded Systems) workshop series. Dr. Paar’s research interests cover fast software and hardware realizations of cryptography, RFID security, physical security, and cryptanalytical hardware. He is co-founder of escrypt – Embedded Security Inc., a leading consultancy in applied security. Dr. Paar has over 80 peer-reviewed publications in embedded security and holds several patents. He has given many
invited talks in such places as MIT, Yale, Stanford University, IBM T.J. Watson Labs and Sun Labs.
Prof. Dr. Bart Preneel, Professor, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium
Prof. Dr. Preneel received a Doctorate in Applied Sciences from the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (Belgium) where he is currently a full professor. He was a visiting professor at several universities in Europe and a research fellow at the University of California at Berkeley. His main research interests are cryptography and information security. He has authored and co-authored more than 200 scientific publications. He is president of the IACR (International Association for Cryptologic Research) and a member of the Editorial Board of the Journal of Cryptology and of the IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security. He has participated in 25 research projects sponsored by the European Commission, five of these as project manager. He has been program chair of ten international conferences and he has been an invited speaker at more than 30 conferences. In 2003, he has received the European Information Security Award in the area of academic research. He is president of L-SEC (Leuven Security Excellence Consortium), an association of 70 companies and research institutions in the area of e-security.
Prof. Dr. Jean-Jacques Quisquater, Professor, Université catholique de Louvain (UCL), Belgium
Prof. Dr. Quisquater received a PhD in Computer Science from the University of Orsay (LRI, France) and a doctorate honoris causa from Limoges. He is currently serving as the head of the UCL Crypto Group, a group of 20 researchers about cryptography. Dr. Quisquater has published around 200 papers in international conferences and journals about cryptography, security, smart cards and graph theory and has 20 patents including the so-called the GQ protocol used commercially for identification. While working for Philips, Dr. Quisquater was responsible for the first software and hardware implementation of DES and RSA in smart cards. The current cryptographic coprocessor (FAME-X) for electronic passports by NXP is derived from his work. He is member of the steering committees of many conferences including CHES, CARDIS, ESORICS and WISTP.
Dr. Tuyls at Embedded World 2009 Exhibition and Conference
Dr. Tuyls’ talk titled, “Embedded System Security with Physically Unclonable Functions” will be presented in Session 1.6: Cryptography and Embedded Security at 2:00 p.m., Tuesday, March 3, during the embedded world 2009 Exhibition and Conference held in Nuremberg, Germany.
