Formerly known as PUFCO for its unclonable silicon chips - then known as Physical Unclonable Functions - Verayo Inc's technology is like a biometrics technology for silicon chips. It extracts a type of âelectronic DNA or fingerprintâ that is unique to each silicon chip, and uses it for authentication and security applications. It is effectively impossible to model or copy the electronic DNA in another chip, which makes PUF-based solutions more secure and robust. Verayo provides authentication and security products based on its patented Silicon DNA technology. Verayo is focused on applications of Silicon DNA technology in mobile and connected devices to address the need for higher trust and security in the fast growing mobile and NFC commerce. Verayoâs Silicon DNA technology is based on a breakthrough technology called Physical Unclonable Functions (PUFs). PUFs bring three fundamental capabilities to semiconductor ICs: PUFs make ICs effectively unclonable, PUFs make it possible to securely authenticate any IC, and PUFs can generate virtually unlimited number of unique cryptographic root master keys from each IC. The firm came out of a 2004 project funded by he MIT DEshpande Tcehnological Innovation C
