“Integrating strong security is crucial in our effort to provide an all-in-one system-on-a-chip solution for the next generation of set-top boxes,” said Philippe Notton, DTV marketing director of Mstar. “The Cryptofirewall has an impressive track record, and will help our next generation set-top box chips meet requirements for protecting against piracy and other security challenges in the pay TV space.”

The Cryptofirewall core is an on-chip, hardware-based security block that protects cryptographic keys and computations from attack. Successfully deployed in over 100 million devices, Cryptofirewall has helped eliminate signal theft in some of the world’s highest-threat environments. The Cryptofirewall core can prevent the theft of pay TV broadcast signals, simplify compliance with content owners’ anti-piracy requirements, and streamline product development.

“Mstar has a proven history of delivering end-to-end semiconductor solutions for pay TV and various other consumer applications such as TV and mobile phones,” said Paul Kocher, president and chief scientist for Cryptography Research. “We are pleased to be working together with Mstar to provide operators and conditional access providers with our hardware-based foundation for solving signal theft.”