Faststream Secure covers silicon-rooted hardware identity, secure boot, cryptographic subsystem integration, secure provisioning and anti-cloning properties. It is described here at property level — what the hardware provides and what it is resistant to — rather than by mechanism. Implementation detail is discussed under a non-disclosure agreement.
Secure identity silicon is a platform. Smart card is its most visible application, not its boundary.
| Application | What identity is doing |
|---|---|
| Payment and banking credentials | Binding a credential to a specific piece of hardware |
| Government identity and ePassport-class | High-assurance personalisation and verification |
| Enterprise access | Credentials that cannot be trivially duplicated |
| Healthcare identity | Patient and practitioner credentials with audit requirements |
| Transit and mobility | High-throughput contactless transactions under power constraints |
| IoT device identity | Onboarding and provisioning at fleet scale |
| Secure microcontrollers and industrial controllers | Protecting firmware integrity in long-lifecycle equipment |
| Trusted hardware for edge infrastructure | Attesting what a compute node is before it is trusted with work |
Security claims are made at property level: what the hardware provides, what it is resistant to, and how it integrates. Mechanism, circuit architecture and implementation detail are not published.
Language is chosen with the same care. A tamper-evident design is described as tamper-evident, and not with the stronger word people reach for next. No system is described as impossible to attack. Where a claim depends on a configuration or an assumption, the assumption is stated.
Detailed technical discussion happens under a non-disclosure agreement, at which point the mechanism, the threat model and the evaluation evidence are all on the table.
A root of trust is the component a system's security depends on and which cannot itself be verified by anything below it. A silicon root of trust places that anchor in hardware, so device identity and boot integrity derive from the physical part rather than from software that could be replaced.
No. Smart card SoC is a major application, but the same platform applies to secure microcontrollers, industrial controllers, IoT device identity, transit and access credentials, and trusted hardware for edge infrastructure.
Security mechanism, circuit architecture and implementation detail are discussed under a non-disclosure agreement. Public material describes properties, capabilities, integration and assurance — which is what a buyer needs to decide whether a conversation is worth having.
Tell us the specification, the constraint and the deadline. Programmes that cross silicon, radio, embedded and AI are where Faststream is strongest.