Secure-Firmware Over-the-Air (S-FOTA)
Established in 1963, the R&D 100 Awards is the only S&T (science and technology) awards competition that recognizes new commercial products, technologies, and materials for their technological significance that are available for sale or license. The R&D 100 Awards, celebrating the program's 60th Anniversary this year, has long been a benchmark of excellence for industry sectors as diverse as telecommunications, high-energy physics, software, manufacturing, and biotechnology. This 2022 R&D 100 winner is listed below, along with its respective category.
Category: Software/Services
Developers: Sandia National Laboratories Sandia National Laboratories
United States
Product Description:S-FOTA uses a single application interface - “active authentication (Digitally Unclonable Function)” – to consolidate, simplify, and enhance the integrity and authenticity of firmware updates. It reduces the cost of deploying, managing, securing the firmware by eliminating the complexity of existing services (i.e., cryptography, key management, public key infrastructure.
Developers: Sandia National Laboratories Sandia National Laboratories
United States
Product Description:S-FOTA uses a single application interface - “active authentication (Digitally Unclonable Function)” – to consolidate, simplify, and enhance the integrity and authenticity of firmware updates. It reduces the cost of deploying, managing, securing the firmware by eliminating the complexity of existing services (i.e., cryptography, key management, public key infrastructure.

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