SciEngines manufactures the RIVYERA cryptanalytic platform, comprising of special-purpose computers and a software suite. It allows you to run attacks on cryptographic schemes used for securing data in transit (as used in radio, satellite or wired communication) and data at rest (e.g., encrypted files or hard drives).
You can use the systems in a variety of applications domains, such as C5ISR, Internet Investigations, Cyber Operations, or Battlefield Forensics. In these settings, RIVYERA systems enable your operators to act more swiftly upon newly-collected intelligence.
RIVYERA systems come in data centre and mobile configurations. They have been architected to enable new ways of combating the adversary and provide you with a strategic advantage. Due to its energy efficiency, the platform is able to meet otherwise unattainable performance, space and power consumption requirements. These systems may be your only option when space, energy supply or air conditioning are highly constrained, permitting deployment on board a marine vessel, an aircraft or a land vehicle.
Your RIVYERA deployment can also scale up to any reasonable point. This is achieved by clustering your desired number of systems and making them work together as a single unit. Your operators are relieved from having to deal with the intricacies of system management by a sophisticated software framework. It negotiates between the low-level routines controlling the special-purpose hardware and the graphical or command-line user interfaces, either of which can be used. This ease of handling a RIVYERA extends to all aspects of the system.
A single rack of ten RIVYERA computers performs at supercomputer level, with several racks full of them arriving at results proportionally earlier.
SciEngines also offers field-deployable units which can run off a vehicle’s battery power or be portable. Solutions implementing custom form factors or feature sets are possible.
SciEngines’ special-purpose computers take a radically different approach regarding the underlying chip technology used: we leverage so-called Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGA) as compute units. That type of silicon chip is used in many application areas, e.g. Radar or Software-Defined Radios (SDRs).
It distinguishes itself from alternative approaches as it allows the implementation of critical parts — the cryptographic algorithms — on the hardware level. This avoids having to run comparatively slow software code. The RIVYERA system’s FPGAs can be re-programmed on the fly by a single mouse click, so that a different type of communication could be attacked. This approach, i.e. changing the inner workings of the compute units, sheds the ballast of silicon chip functionality not needed for this particular application area, making it excel in efficiency.
Many years of engineering effort went into perfecting the architecture, providing you as operator with an optimum and easy-to-use set of capabilities for your mission.
Integration with existing workflows and external systems is easy and straightforward so you could enjoy any degree of automation you deem suitable.
