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#News(Security) [ via IoTForIndiaGroup ]
Tamper resistance is an increasingly important factor in smart devices. Together with secure hardware design and defensive coding, it can deliver a very secure device.
One of the most common areas the average consumer will encounter tamper resistant devices is in payment terminals, or Pin Entry Devices (PEDs)
Placing a hardware back door inside a PED was an excellent route for fraudsters to skim credit cards.
The MAX32550 doesn’t have fully open datasheets, so we can’t tell that much about it. What we do know is that it has a lot of security functionality: a hardware random number generator, battery backed key storage (so the second power is removed, keys are wiped), a die shield with tamper detection to mitigate decapping attacks, and more.
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