founded 1995 ; 21 years ago 1995 headquarters san francisco california key people paul kocher president and chief scientist products technology licensing secure semiconductors revenue 10m 100m number of employees 25 100 parent rambus website www.rambus.com security cryptography research inc. . is a san francisco based cryptography company specializing in applied cryptographic engineering including technologies for building tamper resistant semiconductors . it was purchased on june 6 2011 by rambus for 342.5 m. 1 the company licenses patents for protecting cryptographic devices against power analysis attacks . 2 the company s cryptofirewall brand asic cores are used in pay tv conditional access systems and anti counterfeiting applications . 3 cri also developed bd a security component in the blu ray disc format and played a role in the format war between hd dvd and blu ray . 4 5 the company s services group assists with security testing disaster recovery and training . cryptography research protects its core operations from outside attack by maintaining a secured local network that is not connected to the internet at all . employees who need to work with sensitive data have two computers on their desks one to access the secure network and a separate computer to access the internet . 6 in 2009 frost & sullivan awarded the company the world smart card technology leadership of the year award noting that the company is one of the highest volume and highest value technology licensors in the semiconductor industry and that more than 4 billion security chips are produced under its licenses every year . 7 references edit rambus buying cryptography research for 342.5 million . 2011 05 12 . retrieved 2012 06 16 . ubhey anoop november 23 2004 . interview with cryptography research inc . frost.com . fontanezza maria october 2007 . technology battles device cloning md & di . markoff john 15 april 2003 . plan would use content not devices to fight piracy . the new york times . singel ryan february 28 2008 . how crypto won the dvd war . wired . wired magazine . how one company stays safe with two networks cnet news march 30 2010 . frost & sullivan commends cryptography research for technology leadership . frost.com . september 15 2009 . external links edit official website this cryptography related article is a stub . you can help wikipedia by expanding it . v t e retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title cryptography research & oldid 705749798 categories cryptography companiescryptography stubshidden categories official website different in wikidata and wikipediaall stub articles navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages edit links this page was last modified on 19 february 2016 at 09 54 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; additional terms may apply . by using this site you agree to the terms of use and privacy policy . wikipedia is a registered trademark of the wikimedia foundation inc. a non profit organization . privacy policy about wikipedia disclaimers contact wikipedia developers cookie statement mobile view