Dr. Cetin Kaya Koc - Technology

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Technology Development

Since 1988, I have been developing cryptography and information security technologies and products. Over the years, I contributed to nearly 20 products in the marketplace. Particularly, I worked on some early, successful security toolkits and products such as BSAFE (RSA Security), CDSA (Intel), and the first few (non-commercial) versions of PGP secure email. Currently I am managing two technology companies, CryptoCode and Intryca, which I co-founded.

CryptoCode Inc.

CryptoCode is a technology company with offices and labs in Santa Barbara, California, specialized in cryptographic engineering research and development. CryptoCode develops cryptographic and cryptanalytic hardware and software, offers reverse engineering and cloning services, evaluates and validates cryptographic products. CryptoCode has experience and knowledge in cryptography, accumulated over two decades.

CryptoCode has particular expertise in development of secure (resistant to side-channel attacks), highly-optimized, algorithm-rich and platform-specific cryptographic code in ASM, C, C++, Java, VHDL, and Verilog. In addition to cryptography, CryptoCode also develops IP cores for audio and video encoding and decoding (SBC, AAC, MPEG) and error-correcting codes (BCH, RS). Over the years, CryptoCode developed several hardware and embedded software IP cores, which are available for immediate delivery, and develops new IP cores, and performs customization services according to the specifications and requirements of its customers.

Intryca Inc.

Intryca develops a unique and innovative cryptographic software which allows the user to authenticate her identity and her smart mobile device, without requiring any modification to the device hardware. Intryca's software can be integrated to the smart device as an OS service or as an application, and transforms the device into a truly trusted proxy, and thus allowing wide scale deployment of new services and applications.

Intryca's technology is particularly crucial for applications requiring strong authentication, e.g., Internet banking, mobile payment systems, access to bank ATM's, and mobile identity checks for governmental agencies. Moreover, license management for high value applications would be enabled. Even further, Intryca's technology would enable pay-per-view or pay-per-use services on smart phones and other similar mobile platforms.