Abstract: The invention concerns a method for implementing in an electronic component a cryptographic algorithm using calculating means. The invention is characterized in that it consists in carrying out the following steps: a) selecting a value e among a specific number of values eI, ei being integers, b) checking if ei verifies a predetermined relationship: if so, then e=ei, and storing e for use in calculating said cryptographic algorithm.

Abstract: An electronic device, such as a mini card, has an inlay substrate for the electronic device. The inlay includes a substrate layer, a communication interface having a first metallization supported by the substrate layer, a hole or a hole location area, for attachment to an external device, and a second metallization surrounding at least partially the hole or its location area. The second metallization strengthens the card at the hole area. The method includes realizing the first and second metallizations on the same machine and/or at the same time.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method for secure and compact exponentiation. The inventive method can be applied in the field of cryptology where cryptographic algorithms are used in electronic devices such as chip cards.

Abstract: A method of unlocking a mobile terminal after a period of use and ensuring that the first operator who sold the terminal receives adequate payment prior to the use thereof. The identity of the terminal is saved and a security algorithm, which is not known to the operator, is implemented in a security module which is introduced into a server that is managed by the operator. After the period of use, the security module determines a secret key which is obtained by applying the terminal identity transmitted thereby and an operator code to the security algorithm, following a request transmitted by the service entity. The determined secret key, which is encrypted at the terminal, is transmitted over the operator's radiocommunications network and decrypted in the mobile terminal so that it can be compared to the saved secret key in order for the mobile terminal to be unlocked when the compared secret keys are identical.

Abstract: A method of protecting a telecommunication terminal having a chip-card-type personal component which is required for telecommunication network access. The terminal includes a processing unit, at least one operating memory element containing the information necessary to the operation of the terminal, i.e. a terminal operating program, and the data necessary to the program. The method involves: a) encrypting the contents of the operating memory element of the telecommunication terminal using a pre-determined key K which is necessary for decryption; and b) allowing the terminal to commence decryption once the terminal has been started with a start-up program that is saved in a secure memory element and once the key for decryption has been calculated by same.

Abstract: A method for producing a contactless card having a support for the functional elements of the card. The support is provided with lower and upper covering layers, and the functional elements borne thereon are formed by means of extrusion, directly in contact with the support.

Abstract: A countermeasure method for a microcontroller that executes sequences of instructions. The instructions are executed according to a pipeline method. At least one waiting time is randomly introduced between two consecutive instructions and/or within at least one instruction. The method is implemented by the electronics of the microcontroller rather than by software addition.

Abstract: In a radiofrequency network, such as a Bluetooth network, two devices are securely identified to one another for a communication session. One of the devices is designated as a master apparatus, and the other is a slave apparatus. An automatic identification process is carried out by placing the two devices in close proximity with one another, and transmitting very short range signals from the master apparatus, to be exclusively received by the slave apparatus. If the two devices are able to communicate over this short range, an identification key is generated and passed to the slave apparatus for subsequent exchanges in normal, larger range communications.

Abstract: A method for protection against modification of data sent by a user to a secure medium via a reader selects and stores some of the data. Confirmation of the authenticity of the selected data is obtained by verifying whether they are identical to those input on request by the user in a secure communication mode of the reader. The method is applicable to the protection against the modification of a command and/or a document signed with an electronic signature.

Abstract: A method for the secure application of a cryptographic algorithm of the RSA type in an electronic component obtains the value of a public exponent e from a given set of probable values, without a priori knowledge of that value. Having determined the value for the public exponent e, the application of countermeasures using the value of e, to block error attacks and side channel attacks, particularly of the DPA and SPA type, are carried out on the application of a private operation of the cryptographic algorithm.

Abstract: The invention solves the problem of systematic image marking of portable communicating objects, such as smart cards or mobile terminals, involved in a campaign in a database connected to a downloading server, thereby releasing the server. Access to a communicating object targeted by the campaign is authorized for a single-unit operation while the server manages the preprocessing of data for the communicating object during the campaign. Access is inhibited for a single-unit operation concerning an object targeted by the campaign when access is requested while the server manages transmission of a data message to the communicating object during the campaign. Access is also prohibited while the server manages an acknowledgement transmitted by the communicating object and the post-processing of data concerning the communicating object.

Abstract: In a distributed computing system which employs smart cards to provide services, the need for a fixed mapping between methods that can be invoked from a card application and APDU messages is avoided. A card skeleton provides a decoding table to a client proxy when a connection is established between a card and a terminal. With the information provided from the skeleton, the proxy dynamically maps methods to APDU messages, for communication during a given session. As a result, if the on-card application is enhanced to provide new methods, its corresponding skeleton is upgraded to recognize those methods. When the card is connected to a terminal, the updated information is provided to the proxy at the terminal, to enable the user to access the enhanced features of the application.

Abstract: A portable intelligent object has first and second communication interfaces with a station. The first communication interface can send and/or receive data by means of inductive coupling with the station. The object also has an integrated peripheral circuit. All of the data exchanged between the peripheral circuit and the central circuit passes through the station.

Abstract: To improve security of operations in a communication network such as Internet, a database containing a plurality of icons is stored in the installation program of a browser. When executing the installation program, an icon in the icon database is selected. The selected icon is stored in a storage unit which is inaccessible by any device other than the browser. The selected icon is displayed when executing the browser, and it is assigned a feature to indicate whether the current operation is secure.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method for creating immunity to the variations in resources of a portable object comprising a processor block, and at least two communication and/or supply interfaces with and/or without contact. Said method comprises at least one step for controlling the availability state of at least one resource on one of the interfaces, and a resource selection step. The inventive method is characterised in that it comprises the following steps according to which an interruption signal is generated towards the processor block during a variation in the availability of the resource, and the processor treats the interruption signal in order to enable a selection of resources. The invention also relates to the associated portable object.

Abstract: A method of managing a multi-application electronic device, such as a multi-application smart card, of the type having an operating system which is designed to support a plurality of applications. Each of the applications belongs to an application provider having a unique security domain which is initially installed on the card. Upon receipt of a command for an application to be loaded onto the device, the operating system verifies that the application is associated with a security domain corresponding to the security domain of the application provider. In the event of successful verification, the operating system authorizes the loading and installation thereof on the card, connecting the same automatically to the security domain.

Abstract: The invention relates to a data storage device (10) comprising a memory space (20) divided into memory blocks and an internal file system management means (30) which organises said memory blocks for storing data in a form of a file structure according to a file-type control format, wherein said device is characterised in that it comprises a protocol conversion interface (80) between said file system management means (30) and a host device (40) which is provided with means (70) for accessing to data in the storage device according to a block-type control format.

Abstract: A chip card in a terminal such as a mobile radiotelephone is identified by a first identifier with a server including for example the nominal locating recorder in a cellular radiotelephone network, without the first identifier being transmitted in a clear form or substituted by a provisional identifier. An anonymous identifier is determined in the card on the basis of a generated random number, the first identifier and the result of a public key asymmetric algorithm to which at least the random number is applied. The anonymous identifier is transmitted to the server which recovers the first identifier at least by executing the asymmetric algorithm to which a private key and at least partly the anonymous identifier are applied.

Abstract: The invention relates to an electronic device comprising a module which is affixed to a support body by means of a layer of adhesive. According to the invention, the module comprises a support film having a first metallisation on an upper face and a printed circuit chip on a lower face, said chip being connected to the first metallisation through the film. The invention is characterised in that the device comprises a primer separation layer (9, 14) which is disposed between the lower face (10) and the chip (8). The invention is also characterised in that the primer separation layer adheres more to the adhesive layer than the film. The invention also relates to the associated modules.

Abstract: A biometric identification method includes the steps of acquiring biometric data, analysing the data to produce a current signature, and comparing the current signature with a reference signature. To this process is added the further step of verifying the origin of the current signature, by determining whether the signature is actually the result of the analysis of the biometric data obtained during the acquisition phase. The verification and comparison steps are preformed in a portable electronic device, such as a smart card.