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Seeking your interest on roadtesting a secure authenticator evaluation board

rscasny
rscasny 9 months ago

Hi All.

The element14 Community along with our Farnell/Newark sites will be doing a security & surveillance program later in the year (or maybe the beginning of next year). I talked about it in a previous discussion I held. Click here to read. 

I haven't done much with security products lately. Sometimes this has to do with what a supplier is interested in at the moment. Other times it is my perception of the community's interest at a specific moment. But, needless to say, security is important, critical, a very big deal. My mind at the moment is in the very big deal mode. So, I want to push the car so to speak and move forward to offering some security product(s) for the community to roadtest, play with the demos, and if you are sort of new to technology and security, learn something new.

I have had a meeting with a supplier and right now, I was offered for consideration three products. I want to give you some facts and links to datasheets, so you can see what a security supplier would be interested in offering to the roadtest program. I'd like you to take a look and vote in my interest polls below.

If I haven't explicitly said it before, I really do think it's a collaboration between you (the community members), the supplier and myself (program management) that makes the program work. I value all of your input and knowledge.

Here are the products:

imageDS28E30EVKIT# - Deep Cover Secure Authenticator

This kit provides the hardware and software necessary to exercise the features of the DS28E30. The EV system consists of five DS28E30 in WLP package mounted on an interface PCB, along with a DS9481P-300# USB-to-I2C/1-Wire® adapter. The evaluation software runs under Windows® 10, 8, and 7 operating systems for 64-bit and 32-bit versions.
Datasheet

imageMAX66301-25XEVKIT# DeepCover Secure Authenticator

This kit comprises a MAX66301 evaluation kit (EV kit) and a MAX66250 tag. The MAX66301 EV kit combines an RFID reader for contactless communication at 13.56MHz and a SHA-3 secure authenticator coprocessor. The MAX66250 tag operates as a solution covering the ISO 15693 standard and combines FIPS202-compliant Secure Hash Algorithm (SHA-3) challenge and response authentication with secured EEPROM. By pairing the MAX66301 with the MAX66250 into an EV system, the EV kit software can operate to show a secure challenge and response authentication and other part specific functionality.
Datasheet: 

imageMAXQ1065EVKIT# Secure Coprocessor

This kit provides the hardware and software necessary to exercise the features of the MAXQ1065GTC+. The EV kit consists of five MAXQ1065GTC+ devices in a 12-pin TDFN package, and a MAXQ1065 evaluation 12-pin TDFN socket board. The device makes it fast and easy to implement full security for embedded, connected products without requiring firmware development.
Datasheet: 

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  • misaz
    misaz 9 months ago +4
    The problem of these devices is that Maxim do not publish full documentation publicly. Even someone go NDA way, unlikely he/she will be able to mention any details about device in review. Otherwise all…
  • obones
    obones 9 months ago +3
    The first kit (DS28E30 based) looks nice with the FIPS certification, but I find it strange that it mentions 186-4 which was superseded by revision 5 in 2023 and has been withdrawn for almost 6 months…
  • DAB
    DAB 9 months ago +2
    The RFID kit is intriguing and a simple way to implement secure access. What would be useful is a couple of spare keys that could be programmed with a false code to see how robust the discrimination…
  • ntewinkel
    ntewinkel 9 months ago

    I voted a solid definite maybe on all three. It’s very interesting to me, but the maybe is due to time constraints and it also looks like it’s windows only.

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  • DAB
    DAB 9 months ago

    The RFID kit is intriguing and a simple way to implement secure access.

    What would be useful is a couple of spare keys that could be programmed with a false code to see how robust the discrimination could be.

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  • misaz
    misaz 9 months ago

    The problem of these devices is that Maxim do not publish full documentation publicly. Even someone go NDA way, unlikely he/she will be able to mention any details about device in review.

    Otherwise all three are nice devices to try.

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  • obones
    obones 9 months ago in reply to misaz

    I agree, security by obfuscation is a sure recipe for disaster.

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  • obones
    obones 9 months ago

    The first kit (DS28E30 based) looks nice with the FIPS certification, but I find it strange that it mentions 186-4 which was superseded by revision 5 in 2023 and has been withdrawn for almost 6 months now.

    Also, I find it strange there are no mentions of FIPS 140-3 that is the go to standard for hardware modules certification. For instance, software signature certificates are only available on such modules since 2023 which was a bit of pain to work with when we had to migrate from file based certificates.

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  • gpolder
    gpolder 9 months ago in reply to obones

    It seems these kits are somewhat outdated; the links to the Maxim website in the specifications redirect to the general Analog Devices website. Regarding the third kit, it only mentions compatibility with Raspberry Pi 2 and 3, so I assume it's from before the release of Raspberry Pi 4.

    Unfortunately, the other kits only offer a Windows SDK, which limits their usefulness for me. However, the topic is still interesting, and I'm looking forward to the security and surveillance program later this year.

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  • rscasny
    rscasny 9 months ago in reply to gpolder

    Maxim is now part of Analog Devices.

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  • rscasny
    rscasny 9 months ago in reply to misaz

    If there were some doc you needed, I can always ask for it. When you mention details of the device I presume you are referring to the review itself. I don't think I've limited a roadtester's comments about a device when the comment is relevant.

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  • shabaz
    shabaz 9 months ago in reply to misaz

    Incidentally, there's a technique that works quite well; since Maxim have dev-kits and source code, it's often quite possible to deduce what's going on from snooping on the signals (even though you won't know the details down to bits'n'bytes, often the first barrier for adoption is for potential customers to just understand at a high level what the device can be used for, and a broad outline of the communication process (i.e. a message sequence type of diagram showing the ping-pong of messages). All that can be deliberately done without reading the NDA docs, so that what you're writing is clean. After that you could read the NDA docs.

    I've tried the above technique with a Maxim device (not the one in question, but it was a DeepCover branded product), and it was feasible.

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  • gordonmx
    gordonmx 9 months ago in reply to gpolder

    MAX66301-25XEVKIT Evaluation Board | Analog Devices

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