STSAFE-A100

Authentication & Brand protection secure solution

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The STSAFE-A100 is a highly secure solution that acts as a secure element providing authentication and data management services to a local or remote host. It consists of a full turnkey solution with a secure operating system running on the latest generation of secure microcontrollers.

The STSAFE-A100 can be integrated in IoT (Internet of things) devices, smart-home, smart-city and industrial applications, consumer electronics devices, consumables and accessories.

Key Features

Authentication (of peripherals, IoT and USB Type-C devices)
Secure channel establishment with remote host including transport layer security (TLS) handshake
Signature verification service (secure boot and firmware upgrade)
Usage monitoring with secure counters
Pairing and secure channel with host application processor
Wrapping and unwrapping of local or remote host envelopes
On-chip key pair generation
Security features
- Latest generation of highly secure MCUs
  - CC EAL5+ AVA_VAN5 Common Criteria certified
  - Active shield
  - Monitoring of environmental parameters
  - Protection mechanism against faults
  - Unique serial number on each die
  - Protection against side-channel attacks
- Advanced asymmetric cryptography
  - Elliptic curve cryptography (ECC) with NIST or Brainpool 256-bit and 384-bit curves
  - Elliptic curve digital signature algorithm (ECDSA) with SHA-256 and SHA-384 for digital signature generation and verification
  - Elliptic curve Diffie-Hellman (ECDH) for key establishment
- Advanced symmetric cryptography
  - Key wrapping and unwrapping using AES-128/AES-256
  - Secure channel protocols using AES-128
- Secure operating system
  - Secure STSAFE-A100 kernel for authentication and data management
  - Protection against logical and physical attacks
Hardware features
- Highly secure MCU platform
- 6 Kbytes of configurable non-volatile memory
  - Highly reliable CMOS EEPROM technology
  - 30 years’ data retention at 25 °C
  - 500 000 erase/program cycles endurance at 25 °C
  - 1.62 V to 5.5 V continuous supply voltage
Protocol
- I²C-bus slave interface
  - Up to 400 Kbps transmission speed (Fast mode) and true open-drain pads
  - 7-bit addressing
Packages
- ECOPACK^®-compliant SO8N 8-lead plastic small outline and UFDFPN 8-lead ultra-thin profile fine pitch dual flat packages

Resources

Technical Documentation

Product Specifications

	Description	Version	Size
	DB2827: Authentication, state-of-the-art security for peripherals and IoT devices	3.0	330 KB

Presentations & Training Material

Presentations

	Description	Version	Size
	STSAFE-A Product presentation EW16		787 KB

Publications and Collaterals

Flyers

	Description	Version	Size
	STSAFE-A Optimized Secure Solution for authentication in IoT		1 MB

Brochures

Description	Version	Size
Make LoRa® easy and secure	1.0	1 MB
Making Sigfox devices easy and secure	1.0	1 MB
STSAFE - Secure Solutions for IoT	1.0	1 MB

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Sample & Buy

Part Number	Marketing Status	Quantity	Unit Price (US$) *	Package	Packing Type	ECCN (US)	Country of Origin	More info	Order from ST	Order from Distributors
STSAFE-A100	Active : Product is in volume production	-	-	DICE	Not Applicable	3A991A2	-	MORE INFO		No availability reported, please contact our Sales office

(*) Suggested Resale Price per unit (USD) for BUDGETARY USE ONLY. For quotes, prices in local currency, please contact your local ST Sales Office or our Distributors

Quality & Reliability

Part Number	Marketing Status	Package	RoHS Compliance Grade	Material Declaration**
STSAFE-A100	Active	DICE	N/A

(**) The Material Declaration forms available on st.com may be generic documents based on the most commonly used package within a package family. For this reason, they may not be 100% accurate for a specific device. Please contact our sales support for information on specific devices.