ARM's
TrustZone technology, including software co-developed with
Trusted Logic, is useful for securing consumer products such as mobile phones, PDAs, and set-top boxes running Windows CE and other open embedded operating systems, according to ARM. The TrustZone software API is intended to provide a common framework for developing secure applications compatible across multiple platforms, according to ARM. It ensures reliable implementation of security critical applications and services such as network virus protection, VPNs, and DRM, ARM says.
"DRM was the hot application that we had in mind when Trusted Logic and ARM took the decision to develop the software security framework on top of the TrustZone hardware platform," commented Trusted Logic CEO Dominique Bolignano.
The TrustZone software is expected to be available for licensing from ARM in Q2 2005. ARM says it intends to make the TrustZone software API specifications publicly available as an open standard for the promotion of interoperable security standards.
NDS says that its newly available mVideoGuard DRM support is the industry's first Open Mobile Alliance (OMA) v2 compliant DRM solution based on the ARM TrustZone software API. Basing its DRM strategy on TrustZone allows the the company to reduce porting costs and time-to-market for mobile operators, it says.
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