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From PCWorld: Intel’s IoT vision sees far more than chips

“Intel’s taking one security technology it’s developed for its own products, called EPID (Enhanced Privacy Identity), and promoting it to other silicon vendors.

“EPID separates a device’s ability to prove that it’s a certain class of device from its ability to prove that it’s a unique, specific device. Each device has its own key, but there’s a single key on the other side used to validate them. One place that may be useful is in vehicles, where a car could be authorized to use shared infrastructure such as tollbooths and smart traffic lights without identifying itself as your car in particular, Wigle said. That would keep the entities that run those systems from being able to track you wherever you drive.”

“IoT is expected to be a multitrillion-dollar market with an installed base of 50 billion connected things by the end of 2020, but the industry faces hurdles in implementing IoT solutions due to challenges with security, interoperability and solution complexity. By using Intel(R) EPID as a security baseline across the network, the ecosystem can enable different solutions to more securely connect with one another and drive the Internet of Things to scale.”

From the Intel Newsroom: Intel Unifies and Simplifies Connectivity, Security for IoT

“EPID has anonymity properties, in addition to hardware-enforced integrity, and is included in ISO and TCG standards. The EPID technology provides an on-ramp for other devices to securely connect to the Intel IoT Platform.”

“By utilizing Intel EPID technology, Microchip’s customers can maintain end-to-end security and privacy in their IoT products and services, which helps them to protect data from device to cloud, minimizes unauthorized access of endpoints and gateways, and will promote a common security framework for IoT platforms,” said Lorie Wigle, general manager of Internet of Things Security at Intel.”

From NetworkWord.com: IoT security: Intel EPID simplifies authentication of IoT devices

“Biographic and biometric indicators in Intel’s EPID-based proof of concept help streamline the authentication and installation of IoT devices.”

From the Intel Developer Zone: Intel® Enhanced Privacy ID (EPID) Security Technology

“With the increasing number of connected devices, the importance of security and user privacy has never been more relevant. Protecting information content is critical to prevent exposure of trade secrets for businesses, identity theft for individuals, and countless other harmful scenarios that cost both money and time to repair. Part of protecting data and privacy includes ensuring that the devices touching the data are authentic, have not been hijacked, or even replicated into a non-genuine piece of hardware.

“In this article we will discuss the Intel® Enhanced Privacy Identification (EPID) security scheme, which helps to specifically address two device level security issues; anonymity and membership revocation. Billions of existing devices, including most Intel® platforms manufactured since 2008, create signatures that need Intel® EPID verification. Intel is providing the Intel® EPID SDK open source and encouraging device manufacturers to adopt it as an industry standard for device ID in IoT.”