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Xiaomi Licenses whiteCryption Code Protection and White-Box Cryptography Technologies to Provide Secure Mobile Services
[July 01, 2015]

Xiaomi Licenses whiteCryption Code Protection and White-Box Cryptography Technologies to Provide Secure Mobile Services


whiteCryption®, an Intertrust Company, and Silicon Valley's leading provider of software code and data protection technologies, announced today that Xiaomi, the world's third largest smartphone distributor that designs, develops, and sells mobile phones and consumer electronics, has licensed whiteCryption's Cryptanium™ Code Protection and Secure Key Box technologies to protect Xiaomi's mobile application and sensitive data for mission critical global mobile services. This agreement extends Xiaomi's relationship with Intertrust Technologies Corporation.

"Xiaomi is a leading innovator in the development of service enabled mobile devices," said Thorsten Held, Managing Director of whiteCryption. "We are proud to partner with Xiaomi to push the envelope further. Whenever Tamper Resistance is one of the core building blocks of an application, the combination of our Code Proection and FIPS 140-2 certified Secure Key Box (News - Alert) enables innovative software solutions."



whiteCryption's technology stands out by offering integrated software code protection, integrity check and white-box cryptography solutions that turn modern software applications on various platforms into self-diagnostic and self-protecting software products.

According to Hongfeng, Co-founder, vice-president of Xiaomi, "App security and data security are Xiaomi's top priorities for our users. We are pleased to have selected whiteCryption so that we can deploy new mobile services that were not possible in the past without expensive hardware."


About whiteCryption Corporation

whiteCryption Corporation is a leading provider of software code protection and white-box cryptography products. whiteCryption, an Intertrust company, supplies its patented technologies to the world's leading software, hardware, and content companies in the Entertainment, Automotive, IoT and Finance Industry. whiteCryption's Cryptanium™ security solutions protect mobile apps, desktop applications, firmware and embedded applications and are available for all popular platforms such as Android (News - Alert), iOS, Windows, OSX and Linux, plus embedded systems. For further information visit www.whitecryption.com and follow us on Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn.

About Xiaomi Inc.

Xiaomi Inc is a privately owned Chinese electronics company headquartered in Beijing, China. As the world's 3rd largest smartphone distributor, Xiaomi designs, develops, and sells smartphones, mobile apps, and consumer electronics since the release of its first smartphone in August 2011. Xiaomi has gained market share in mainland China and expanded into developing a wider range of consumer electronics, including a smart home device ecosystem.


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