SecureMark™
Benchmark Now Available for the TLS Protocol
EEMBC’s
SecureMark-TLS Measures Performance and Energy Consumption When Implementing
TLS in IoT Devices
PORTLAND, Ore. — Sept. 5, 2018 — EEMBC, an industry consortium that
develops benchmarks for embedded hardware and software, today announced that its SecureMark™-TLS benchmark is now
available for licensing. Part of the SecureMark benchmarking suite for
measuring the efficiency of cryptographic processing solutions, SecureMark-TLS
focuses on the Transport Layer Security (TLS) protocol for internet of things
(IoT) edge nodes.
SecureMark-TLS measures the
performance and energy consumption of processors when implementing the TLS
protocol on an edge device. The benchmark uses a common IoT cypher suite
comprised of elliptic curve cryptography for key exchange and digital signing,
and standard primitives such as SHA256 and AES128, in both CCM and ECB modes.
The energy measurements are aggregated into a single final score that is
representative of the TLS operations for the IoT edge node device.
“While security has become a
paramount concern, implementing security comes at a price. SecureMark-TLS is
intended to help system and silicon designers evaluate the performance and
energy costs of implementing security,” said Jim McGregor, principal analyst at
TIRIAS Research. “By using the most common encryption protocol for IoT edge
nodes, SecureMark-TLS provides a new metric for comparing processors and SoCs.”
Other differentiators between
products, such as cryptographic certifications (e.g., NIST or Common Criteria),
countermeasures (xPA, fault injection), and hardware
implementation specifics, can be described in a disclosure report. The
disclosure report also includes a description of all relevant implementation
details, such as the hardware device tested, the software library version used,
compiler options and flags, and hardware crypto engine details if applicable.
“EEMBC’s SecureMark suite is
designed to provide an industry-created and standardized tool that allows
applications developers to analyze security implementations,” said Peter
Torelli, EEMBC president and CTO. “Within the suite, we plan to support the
testing and analysis of various security profiles for different application
domains. For secure IoT communication, we are proud to introduce SecureMark-TLS
as the first of these available for licensing.”
To request a SecureMark-TLS
license, please visit
https://eembc.org/memberinfo/requestinfo.php?reg=LIC&suite=securemark
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About EEMBC
EEMBC
develops performance benchmarks for the hardware and software used in
autonomous driving, mobile imaging, Internet of Things, mobile devices, and
many other applications. Benchmark suites are developed in a consensual process
by EEMBC member companies and EEMBC technical staff to ensure fairness of
approach and industry-wide acceptance. Further information is available at www.eembc.org.
SecureMark
is a trademark and EEMBC is a registered trademark of the Embedded Microprocessor
Benchmark Consortium.
All
other trademarks appearing herein are the property of their respective owners.
Editor
resources:
Link to
more information:
https://www.eembc.org/securemark/
Agency contact Bob Decker Redpines +1 415 409-0233 |
EEMBC contact Peter Torelli, President and CTO EEMBC +1 (203) 423-3179 |