Is your latest design secure? What about third-party devices or software you use? Root Labs offers design and review assistance to help you with these tough questions. Our expertise includes crypto, embedded systems, reverse-engineering, operating systems and device drivers, and software tamper resistance. See our services page for more details.
Our staff also spends time regularly in R&D. This research allows us to provide cutting-edge insight into solving tough security problems. We talk at conferences like Blackhat and RSA each year. We write articles about the latest security advances on our blog, and we give back to the community by contributing to open source projects.
News
Recent announcements, press releases, and articles that mention us. Past articles are in the news archive.
- 2010/7/28: Nate Lawson and Taylor Nelson present "Exploiting timing attacks in widespread systems" at Blackhat.
- 2010/7/15: Computer World article published about our research into exploiting timing attacks in real-world systems.
- 2010/4/2: Nate Lawson listed as one of CRN's Security Superstars of 2010
- 2010/1/15: We have moved to new offices. Please update your records.
- 2010/1/7: Nate Lawson quoted on RSA factoring in The Register
- 2009/12/30: "Side-Channel Attacks on Cryptographic Software" (read online, pdf), an article by Nate Lawson, was published in IEEE Security Magazine
- 2009/8/5: Nate Lawson presented "Crypto Strikes Back!" at Google Tech Talks (video and slides)
- 2009/6/15: Nate Lawson interviewed on web crypto for the Digital Underground podcast
- 2009/6/9: Nate Lawson presented "When Crypto Attacks!" at Yahoo! Security Week (summary and slides)