Abstract: A method for verifying a security device including an image having a signature. The method may include operations for acquiring the image in order to obtain a first representation of the image, extracting the signature, and verifying the signature. Also included are implementations in the form of a verification apparatus, a computer program, and a computer data medium including such a computer program.

Abstract: A method implemented in an electronic entity capable of implementing a plurality of applications includes the following steps: detecting an electrical signal (D; D?); reading, in a memory of the electronic entity, information relating, among the plurality of applications, to a previously selected application; and transmitting a command (CMD) to deliver an indication associated with the application to which the read information relates. An associated electronic entity is also described.

Abstract: Intrusion detection systems dedicated to an operating system, and an intrusion detection system in a device implementing at least a first operating system and a second operating system are provided. The intrusion detection systems includes: a listening module configured to be executed in the first operating system in order to listen to the activity of this first operating system; a collecting module configured to be executed in the first operating system in order to collect data characterizing the activity of the first operating system; and an analysis and detection module configured to be executed in the second operating system in order to analyze the data collected in the first operating system and detect a suspicious activity in the first operating system depending on the analysis.

Abstract: Disclosed is an antenna support for incorporating in an electronic document. The support can include a first substrate made of a plastics material that is defined by first and second opposite faces, which define between them a thickness of the substrate. The antenna can include one or more turn that extends between two ends, and the antenna can be formed by a wire that is inlaid in the thickness of the first substrate from the first face, such that each of the two ends presents a zigzag shape formed by at least two rectilinear portions and by two bends. The bends can be inlaid more deeply than the rectilinear portions in the thickness of the first substrate from the first face.

Abstract: The disclosure relates to the notification of an SM-SR subscription management server by an eUICC card or an eSE element. The card includes, in local memory, at least one short number (or “short code”), and more generally an address identifier, unique to a mobile-phone operator, wherein the number is associated with an operator subscriber profile within the secure card. The card is configured to retrieve, from the local memory, a short code associated with a subscriber profile in use to send, using the retrieved short code, a card status notification to the SM-SR server. In the absence of a short code, the card uses a unique international telephone number as the recipient of the notification.

Abstract: The securing of data loading originating from an external device into a code memory area defined by an initial program of the secure element and any modification of which is controlled solely by the latter. When the external device obtains data to be transmitted to the secure element, the latter simulates an image of the code memory area as it would be modified by the loading of these data. A signature is calculated on the basis of the simulated image, then dispatched to the secure element with the data. The initial program of the secure element compares a signature that it has calculated over the whole of the code memory area after the actual loading of the data, with the signature received from the external device. The identity between these signatures ensures that the code memory area conforms to the image simulated by the external device, and is unimpaired.

Abstract: A module comprising a base (20) supporting a planar capacitor, an antenna, and a microcircuit electrically connected to each other to form a resonant electrical circuit, the capacitor including on a first face of the base a first electrode (30, 301, 302, 303) and a second electrode (300) disposed on a second face opposite to said first face facing said first electrode, the second electrode and the first electrode having substantially the same shape. Each electrode has at least a first portion and a second portion disposed on either side of the turns (40) of said antenna.

Abstract: A method and tooling for fabricating a thin plastic plate of large format and of large thickness and including a card of small format and of small thickness that is detachable from the plate. The method, which may be implemented using the tooling, includes operations for making a spotface in a face of the plate to a depth equal to the difference between the large thickness and the small thickness; punching in the spotface zone along a leveling direction facing another face of the plate opposite from the first face, to a leveling stroke (en) equal to the depth of the spotface, in order to bring the bottom of the spotface level with the first face of the plate; and pre-cutting an outline of the card within the leveled zone, in order to make the card detachable.

Abstract: An embedded subscriber identity module (eUICC1), which includes communication profiles, and that co-operates with a communications terminal (T).

Abstract: Devices, systems, and methods related to an embedded subscriber identity module (eUICC) suitable for co-operating with a communication device (T) are described. The module may include a communication profile (P1) configured to enable the embedded subscriber identity module to communicate with a telecommunications network (R) when the profile (P1) is active; a reception module (PSM) for receiving, from a remote server (SM-SR) of the mobile telephone network (R), a communication profile management request; and a profile manager module (MGP). The profile manager module may be configured such as, on receiving the management request, to determine whether a rule from a predefined set of at least one rule (RL) is applicable; and if so, to execute an action specified by the applicable rule in association with a communication profile of the embedded subscriber identity module.

Abstract: Method of authentication of a user via a terminal including acquisition elements for performing a biometric acquisition, includes: presentation to the acquisition elements by the user of a member to be verified by biometric comparison and triggering by the user a biometric acquisition to obtain an acquisition datum; biometric comparison of the acquisition datum with a prestored reference datum, the user being authenticated if the biometric comparison is positive and not authenticated otherwise, the method further including the following steps: providing the user with elements indicative of a first angle, the user applying a corrective rotation by a second angle so as to match an acquisition datum with the second angle, and in the biometric comparison step the reference datum is matched with the first angle, the biometric comparison being positive if the second angle is substantially equal to the first angle. Device adapted to implement such a method.

Abstract: A dual module for a dual chip card includes a supporting film supporting on an outer surface, a plurality of connecting pads including two series of connecting pads extending in a given direction and, on an inner surface, two inner connection areas for connection to an antenna of the dual card and a chip, the chip including contact terminals connected by wires to the inner connection areas or electric connecting pads by holes passing through the supporting film while being coated, together with the wires, by coating resin. The electric connecting pads of the outer surface include only three pads. Each of the two inner connection areas forms a comb including a body extending under each of the pads of one of the two series of connecting pads separated from the coating mass, respectively. Blades extend separately from one another from the body until ends covered by the coating mass.

Abstract: Disclosed are a method of weakening an outline in a thin plastic card and tooling for performing the method. The method may include several operations, including a go punching step by means of a go punch presenting a solid shape substantially identical to the outline and suitable for punching the thin plastic card along a go direction against a die presenting a hollow shape substantially identical to the outline and in alignment with the go punch in order to be able to receive material pushed by the go punch, and a return punching step by means of a return punch presenting a solid shape substantially identical to the outline in alignment with the go punch and suitable for punching the thin plastic card along a return direction opposite to the go direction. Also disclosed is a thin plastic card including at least one outline weakened by such a method.

Abstract: A secure electronic entity, adapted to store at least one object, includes a unit for measuring the passage of time as from a reference date associated with the object. It includes a unit for storing a life span assigned to the object co-operating with the time measuring unit so as to compare the time elapsed and the life span. It further includes an updating and invalidating unit, to update the object life span or to temporarily or permanently disable the object if the comparison shows that the time elapsed exceeds the life span. The invention is in particular applicable to smart cards.

Abstract: The fabrication of an electronic document includes the following steps: —obtaining of a flat body in which is made a cavity of globally rectangular shape including a deep portion surrounded by a countersink and which contains an electronic component having connection terminals situated on this countersink while having the shape of meanders 5A, 5B, —obtaining of a module including a support furnished on a so-called external face with a plurality of external contact zones and on a so-called internal face with a printed circuit including connection pads 4A, 4B of hefty form while being connected to certain at least of the external contact zones, the support being furthermore furnished, on this internal face, with a microcircuit connected to this printed circuit, this module being encased in the cavity by an anisotropic conducting adhesive whose overlap coefficient lies between 5 and 8%.

Abstract: Devices and methods for masking and unmasking sensitive data, based on a standard cryptographic algorithm defining a ciphering algorithm, and a deciphering algorithm using more resources than the ciphering algorithm are described. The masking of sensitive data is done by applying the deciphering algorithm to the sensitive data to obtain masked sensitive data. The unmasking of the masked sensitive data is done by applying the ciphering algorithm to the masked sensitive data to obtain sensitive data in plain form.

Abstract: Disclosed is an electronic document, such as an integrated circuit card, that includes a body having a cavity that opens into one of the faces of the body and is defined by walls. The body also includes: an antenna having at least one turn extending between two ends that terminate in a wall of the cavity, a module including a microprocessor and at least two connection terminals dedicated to the antenna and electronically connected by electrical connections firstly to the microprocessor and secondly to the ends of the antenna. The ends of the antenna are arranged in zigzag shapes and each of them is made up of at least two rectilinear portions that are connected together by a bend and in which the rectilinear portion terminating in the cavity is at an angle of inclination relative to the wall at which it terminates.

Abstract: A method for administering life cycles of communication profiles that are managed by a subscriber identity module (100) embedded in a telecommunications terminal (110) may be performed by the module (100), which is suitable for using at least one process for administering the life cycles of communication profiles. The process uses a set of at least one command and/or of at least one rule. The method includes operations for receiving (B610) a message (M610) issued by the terminal (110) and representative of the capabilities of the terminal (110); selecting or not selecting (B615) the set used by the process as a function of the capabilities of the terminal (110); and if the set is selected, administering at least one life cycle of at least one of the profiles by using the set of at least one command and/or of at least one rule.

Abstract: Methods and device for personalizing a secure element (e.g., a eUICC) may include or implement operations for receiving a personalization request issued by an operator to download a personalized profile in compliance with a model into the secure element, and the request may include personalization data, an identifier of the secure element and the identifier of the model.

Abstract: Disclosed are systems and processing methods that may be performed by first, second, and third processor units to give access to an item of sensitive text data from a secure electronic document. In various implementations, the systems and methods may perform operations that include obtaining the secure electronic document; triggering the display of the secure document on a first terminal; selecting at least one marker contained in the secure document; determining secure data; and on the basis of said secure data, determining the item of sensitive text data. In various implementations, the third unit may trigger the display of the item of sensitive text data, and the second and third processor units may be distinct from the first unit and may execute an operating system that is independent of the operating system of the first processor unit.