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by tptacek 996 days ago
They bought Paul Kocher's Cryptography Research in 2021. Cryptography Research designed the Blu-Ray BD+ licensing system and owned a huge IP portfolio on differential power analysis, a technique Kocher, one of the godfathers of side channel cryptanalysis, invented. They also ran (run?) one of the industry's best cryptographic consultancies. If you're a major hardware vendor going to market with a new cryptographic coprocessor, you're very likely going to engage Rambus.