Although the UsbKey device is small, it has high technical content. This product adopts the international leading information security technology, the core hardware module is smart card CPU chip, and the internal structure is composed of CPU, encryption logic, RAM, ROM, EEPROM and I/O. It is a small computer with a security system.
In addition to hardware, the realization of security depends entirely on the high-tech smart card chip operating system (COS), which, like DOS, WINDOWS and other operating systems, manages all kinds of data, keys and files closely related to information security and controls all kinds of security services.
USBKey has a hardware true random number generator, and the key is completely generated and stored in the hardware, which can ensure that the key does not leave the hardware, and the encryption and decryption algorithm provided by the hardware runs completely in the encryption hardware. The integration of software and hardware constitutes a solid fortress of information security. The use of UsbKey adopts the mechanism of security state machine, which has multi-level password verification and protection, and can form mutual authentication applications with other authentication devices.
For PKI-based public key version of chip operating system, symmetric and asymmetric keys can provide two-factor or even multi-factor authentication, and can also provide digital certificates and digital signatures that are more secure than pure software. Because the built-in chip has a 64-bit global unique serial number, all kinds of certification bodies (CA) use this encryption hardware or equipment to authenticate the identity of authorized users.
Application and development of UsbKey
In fact, the predecessor of UsbKey product is smart card, which has played a very important role in various gold card projects being started by the country, such as labor and social security, public utilities, tax control, mobile communication and finance, public safety and other fields, and almost constitutes an important guarantee system for the national economy. Although the chip operating system provides the ability of multi-purpose of one card, the particularity of the dedicated system makes individuals only passive users of various cards and cannot actively control them to serve their own security needs.
Now, UsbKey has broken the barrier of this kind of security service, so that ordinary individuals can quickly obtain professional-level security services. It is precisely because of its strong security and convenient use that it has become the first choice equipment for national industry certification (CA) centers at all levels and institutions such as banks CFCA. This means that the card-based second-generation ID card is still in the process of legal approval in China, and UsbKey has taken the lead in becoming an electronic identity in government affairs, commerce, banking and other fields, and is an important part of the core security system of e-government and e-commerce.
Now, with the technology content of smart cards becoming more and more mature, the profit space of manufacturers and system vendors is becoming more and more limited. How to open the huge domestic individual user market has become an inevitable trend of high-end products and derivatives of smart cards.
At present, there are not many domestic enterprises and research institutions that have developed chip operating systems with independent intellectual property rights, mature technology and reliable products, and there are only a handful of enterprises that have developed mature UsbKey devices. This requires not only years of software and hardware design experience, but also long-term accumulation of information security theory and technology, as well as the most accurate understanding of various complex and diverse standards and technical interface specifications in this field.
For a long time, the application of professional security system has been the patent of 16 technicians, and it is difficult to use these obscure professional-level security technologies for ordinary applications. Therefore, the appearance of UsbKey has played its charm in a people-friendly style.
By providing rich application interfaces and various middleware products, such as CSP, PKCS# 1 1, various applications can quickly meet their professional security service requirements under different platforms. At present, the design of application system and related products based on UsbKey is in a tepid state. With the development of related research and the popularization of application, these systems and products will appear in front of people in the state of volcanic eruption, and will blow up a whirlwind of security demand market.
Now, the most typical product representative here is the first PC security desktop product. The pure software form of this product has existed for a long time at the technical level, but it has always been popular and difficult for ordinary individuals to accept. Moreover, the security of pure software has been questioned, and it is inconvenient to use and has poor information compatibility, which has long been the bottleneck for people to obtain security services.
Now, with the emergence of hardware security carriers, key information has been well protected, and material characteristics can become the image representative of security services and be accepted by ordinary people. The professional product design around UsbKey will make security products more close to the people and provide all-round security services for the public. Imagine the development process of computer, and it is not difficult to realize the important prospect of UsbKey.
When people are still complaining about the speed of reading and writing floppy disks, optical disks have become the characteristics of the dynamic era of data storage; When the CD-ROM drive also needs a computer with CD-ROM drive, USB mobile hard disk has become a new development power of IT industry. Now, people's potential security awareness is awakening, the national security system is being built, and personal security needs are imminent. UsbKey will obviously become a surfer of the new IT wave.
In the current increasingly global economic situation, how to protect personal data security, personal privacy, corporate information security, business secrets and other security needs are increasingly prominent.
The appearance of UsbKey products has attracted the attention of many system integrators, information service enterprises and investors. Faced with such a huge market cake, we are more and more optimistic about the safety and value-added function of this product in the huge information market. I believe everyone hopes that they can seize this very important link in the new industrial chain.