Patents Assigned to INSTITUT TELECOM
  • Patent number: 9494645
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for testing cryptography circuits. It also relates to a secure cryptography circuit capable of being tested. The cryptography circuit includes registers and logic gates, and a test thereof performs a differential power analysis on the registers of the circuit. A cryptography circuit being secure and including a first half-circuit associated with a second half-circuit operating in complementary logic, the electric power supply of the first half-circuit is separated from the electric power supply of the second half-circuit, the differential power analysis being carried out in parallel on each half-circuit, the two power supplies being combined into one and the same electric power supply after the test.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 11, 2009
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2016
    Assignee: INSTITUT TELECOM-TELECOM PARIS TECH
    Inventors: Sylvain Guilley, Jean-Luc Danger
  • Patent number: 9225618
    Abstract: A network includes communication media transmitting streams to addressees, and a method includes: step of allocation of a cryptonymic identity to communication media by a first instance, the streams transmitted by a medium bearing a mark, as a function of its cryptonym, the cryptonymic identity of a medium being distinct from its real identity; step of reading and of analyzing the streams by a second instance, the analysis including a phase of identifying streams to their communication media by searching for similarity between the mark of the streams and the cryptonymic identity of the media, with the aid of a table listing the cryptonyms, and a phase of logging observable characteristics of the streams through the network. A behavior defined by a set of characteristics is declared typical or atypical by comparison with a given set of criteria, the table of cryptonymic identities having no link with the real identities.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 2009
    Date of Patent: December 29, 2015
    Assignee: INSTITUT TELECOM-TELECOM PARIS TECH
    Inventors: Michel Riguidel, Philippe Laurier, Laurent Ladouari
  • Patent number: 8955160
    Abstract: In a method for detecting anomalies in a circuit protected by differential logic and which processes logic variables represented by a pair of components, a first network of cells carrying out logic functions on the first component of said pairs, a second network of dual cells operating in complementary logic on the second component, the logic functions being carried out by each pair of cells in a pre-charge phase placing the variables in a known state on input to the cells and followed by an evaluation phase where a calculation is performed by the cells, the method includes detecting an anomaly by at least one non-consistent state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 2009
    Date of Patent: February 10, 2015
    Assignee: Institut Telecom-Telecom Paris Tech
    Inventors: Jean-Luc Danger, Sylvain Guilley, Florent Flament
  • Patent number: 8929489
    Abstract: A method of reducing the glare of at least one receiver within a system, in particular a geolocation system, the system including: at least one first emitter emitting at least a first signal modulated by a first code, at least a second emitter emitting at least one second signal modulated by a second code, which is repetitive and potentially variable, and a third signal out of phase with respect to the second signal, the third signal being modulated by the second code delayed by a first delay, and the receiver, the latter being configured so as to detect signals emitted by the first and second emitters and implementing, for the tracking of the first signal, a local signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 2011
    Date of Patent: January 6, 2015
    Assignee: Institut-Telecom/Telecom Sudparis
    Inventors: Alexandre Vervisch-Picois, Nel Samama
  • Patent number: 8904192
    Abstract: A programmable cryptography circuit includes memory-based cells defining the logic function of each cell, integrating a differential network capable of carrying out calculations on pairs of binary variables, including a first network of cells implementing logic functions on the first component of the pairs and a second network of dual cells operating in complementary logic on the second component of the pair. A calculation step includes a precharge phase, in which the variables are put into a known state at the output of the cells, and an evaluation phase in which a calculation is made by the cells. A phase of synchronizing the variables is inserted before the evaluation phase or the precharge phase in each cell capable of receiving several signals conveying input variables, the synchronization being carried out on the most delayed signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2009
    Date of Patent: December 2, 2014
    Assignees: Institut Telecom-Telecom Paris Tech, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)
    Inventors: Jean-Luc Danger, Sylvain Guilley, Philippe Hoogvorst
  • Patent number: 8856608
    Abstract: A method and apparatus are provided for modulating a binary source sequence including of a plurality of source words to generate modulated symbols. The method implements error-correction encoding of the plurality of source words, implementing one or more encoding modules, each implementing a separate error-correction code to generate a plurality of code words, the source words being encoded in series. The code words are interlaced to generate an interlaced sequence. The interlaced sequence is differentially modulated to generate modulated symbols. Each code word is broken down into at least one group with a number of bits equal to the base-2 logarithm of a number of states of a modulation implemented by the step of differentially modulating. The interlacing step distributes the groups such that two adjacent groups in the interlaced sequence belong to separate code words.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 2, 2010
    Date of Patent: October 7, 2014
    Assignee: Institut Telecom/Telecom Paristech
    Inventors: Sami Mumtaz, Ghaya Rekaya-Ben Othman, Yves Jaouen
  • Patent number: 8817196
    Abstract: An optical shuttering device is provided, which includes an optical cell with a liquid crystal material between first and second transparent substrates and controlled by an electronic switching circuit. The switching circuit includes a power supply module, providing a control voltage, and a switching element mounted in series between the power supply module and the cell, making it possible to switch the cell between an on state and an off state. The electronic switching circuit furthermore includes a current source mounted in series between the power supply module and the switching element. The substrates preferably have different thickness and material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2009
    Date of Patent: August 26, 2014
    Assignee: Institut Telecom/Telecom Bretagne
    Inventors: Jean-Louis De Bougrenet De La Tocnaye, Bertrand Caillaud, Emmanuel Daniel, Robert Bellini, Olivier Castany
  • Patent number: 8738534
    Abstract: The present invention is related to a decision-support system and method for providing with a score an object represented by a target item from a multidimensional space, said score being representative of the probability that the object satisfies a given binary property. The method and/or decision support-system may be performed in a computer environment comprising processing means connected to memory means.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2010
    Date of Patent: May 27, 2014
    Assignee: Institut Telecom-Telecom Paristech
    Inventors: Stephan Clemencon, Nicolas Vayatis
  • Patent number: 8646041
    Abstract: A method is provided for producing securing data for implementing a secured session between a first and at least a second entity based on a protocol for establishing secured sessions. The method includes setting up a third secured entity related to the first entity; generating at least a portion of the securing data within the third entity; and transmitting the securing data from the secured third entity to the first entity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 19, 2008
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2014
    Assignee: Institut Telecom / Telecom Paristech
    Inventor: Pascal Urien
  • Patent number: 8615079
    Abstract: A cryptography circuit protected against observation attacks comprises at least one register R providing a variable x masked by the mask m, the masked variable being encrypted by a first substitution box S -in a cyclic manner. The circuit also comprises a mask register M delivering at each cycle a mask mt, the transformation of m, the mask m being extracted from mt before being encrypted by a second substitution box S?, the new mask m? obtained on output from this box S? is transformed into a mask m?t before being stored in the mask register M. The transformation consists of a bijection or a composition law making it possible to reduce or indeed to cancel any high-order attack in accordance with a model of activity of the registers R and M. Cryptography circuits are protected against high-order observation attacks on installations based on masking.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 18, 2010
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2013
    Assignee: Institut Telecom-Telecom Paristech
    Inventors: Jean-Luc Danger, Sylvain Guilley
  • Publication number: 20130318017
    Abstract: A learning and decoding technique is provided for a neural network. The technique involves using a set of neurons, referred to as beacons, wherein said beacons are binary neurons capable of assuming only two states, an on state and an off state. The beacons are distributed in blocks of a predetermined number of beacons and being allocated for processing a sub-message. Each beacon is associated with a specific occurrence of the sub-message. Learning includes splitting a message into B sub-messages to be learned, where B is greater than or equal to two; activating, for a sub-message, a single beacon in each block to be in the on state, all of the other beacons of the block being in the off state; and activating binary connections between the on beacons of each of the block for a message to be learned, which assume only connected and disconnected states.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 25, 2011
    Publication date: November 28, 2013
    Applicant: INSTITUT TELECOM - TELECOM BRETAGNE
    Inventors: Claude Berrou, Vincent Gripon
  • Patent number: 8587459
    Abstract: A method is provided for encoding data to be sent to at least one receiver, including at least two identical encoding steps and at least one permutation step. Each encoding step associates a block of encoded data with a block of data to be encoded, using at least two basic codes, each code processing a subset of the data block to be encoded. The permutation step is inserted between two encoding steps, i.e. a current encoding step and a previous encoding step, such that the order of the data in a data block to be encoded by the current encoding step is different from the order of the data encoded by the previous encoding step. The permutation step implements, for a data block, a rotation applied to the data of the data block and a reversal of the order of the data of the data block. The operations can be implemented by an interleaving matrix.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2010
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2013
    Assignee: Institut Telecom/Telecom Bretagne
    Inventors: Jorge Perez Chamorro, Cyril Lahuec, Fabrice Seguin, Matthieu Arzel
  • Patent number: 8508586
    Abstract: Liquid crystal spectacles are provided for three-dimensional viewing of digital video content from a projector. The viewing spectacles include a first rectilinear polariser and a second rectilinear polariser respectively having polarisation axes P1 and P2, the polarisation axes P1 and P2 being parallel or perpendicular relative to each other. Furthermore, the liquid crystal has an adapted intrinsic tilt angle and is used in a half-wave blade configuration. The liquid crystal further includes first and second separate areas, each respectively located opposite a vision axis. The first area includes a first director and the second area includes a second director. The first and second directors are oriented so as to define an adapted angle between them. This enables a “non-one-eyed” vision while waiting for the projection of the film to start, and to obtain the best possible contrast between the two eyes of the user when viewing the digital video content.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 7, 2009
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2013
    Assignee: Institut Telecom/Telecom Bretagne
    Inventors: Jean-Louis De Bougrenet De La Tocnaye, Laurent Dupont, Emmanuel Daniel
  • Publication number: 20130202107
    Abstract: A silicon integrated circuit comprises a physically non-copyable function LPUF allowing the generation of a signature specific to said circuit. Said function comprises a ring oscillator composed of a loop traversed by a signal, being formed of N topologically identical chains of lags, connected in series and of an inversion gate, a chain of lags being composed of M delay elements connected in series. The function also comprises a control module generating N control words being used to configure the value of the delays introduced by the chains of lags on the signal traversing them. A measurement module measures the frequency of the signal at the output of the last chain of lags after the updating of the control words, and means can deduce from the frequency measurements the bits making up the signature of the circuit. A method and a system for testing such circuits are also provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 10, 2011
    Publication date: August 8, 2013
    Applicant: INSTITUT TELECOM-TELECOM PARIS TECH
    Inventor: Jean-Luc Danger
  • Publication number: 20130173520
    Abstract: The present invention is related to a method for providing with a score an object represented by a target item from a multidimensional space, said score being representative of the probability that the object satisfies a given binary property, said method being performed in a computer environment comprising processing means connected to memory means, comprising the following steps: (a) providing and storing in the memory means data representative of a set of sample items from said multidimensional space, each sample item being associated with a multi-value label representative of the probability that an object represented by said sample item satisfies the given binary property; (b) storing in the memory means data representative of the target item; (c) with said processing means, generating and storing in said memory means data representative of an oriented binary tree with a given height, said binary tree being defined by a plurality of nodes having index values in relation with their position in the binary
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 8, 2011
    Publication date: July 4, 2013
    Applicant: INSTITUT TELECOM-TELECOM PARISTECH
    Inventors: Stephan Clemencon, Nicolas Vayatis
  • Publication number: 20130155118
    Abstract: Methods of generating heatmaps including receiving, at a first electronic device, first information associated with a first zone of a plurality of zones of a content item, determining at least one first concept related to the first information, receiving at least one target content characteristic, determining at least one second concept related to the at least one target content characteristic, and determining a first heat of the first zone based on the first and second concepts, the first heat representing a measure of similarity between the first and second concepts.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 20, 2011
    Publication date: June 20, 2013
    Applicants: INSTITUT TELECOM, ALCATEL-LUCENT
    Inventors: Julien Robinson, Myriam Ribière, Mathias Baglioni, Eric Lecolinet, Johann Daigremont
  • Publication number: 20130142272
    Abstract: A method of reducing the glare of at least one receiver within a system, in particular a geolocation system, the system including: at least one first emitter emitting at least a first signal modulated by a first code, at least a second emitter emitting at least one second signal modulated by a second code, which is repetitive and potentially variable, and a third signal out of phase with respect to the second signal, the third signal being modulated by the second code delayed by a first delay, and the receiver, the latter being configured so as to detect signals emitted by the first and second emitters and implementing, for the tracking of the first signal, a local signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 1, 2011
    Publication date: June 6, 2013
    Applicant: INSTITUT-TELECOM/TELECOM SUDPARIS
    Inventors: Alexandre Vervisch-Picois, Nel Samama
  • Publication number: 20130129081
    Abstract: A cryptography circuit protected by masking, said circuit including means for encrypting binary words using at least one key krc, means for applying linear processing operations and nonlinear processing operations to said words and means for masking said words. The binary words are unmasked upstream of the nonlinear processing operations by using a mask kri and masked downstream of said processing operations by using a mask kr+1i, the masks kri and kr+1i being chosen from a set of masks that is specific to each instance of the circuit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 8, 2010
    Publication date: May 23, 2013
    Applicant: INSTITUT TELECOM-TELECOM PARISTECH
    Inventors: Sylvain Guillet, Jean-Luc Danger
  • Publication number: 20130113656
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method of reducing the glare of at least one receiver within a positioning system, the system including a plurality of emitters, each emitter emitting signals modulated by one and the same code whose autocorrelation function exhibits a main peak and at least one white zone in which the autocorrelation function is a minimum, the signals for each emitter includes a first signal modulated by the code and a second signal out of phase with respect to the first signal, the second signal being modulated by the code which is delayed with respect to the code modulating the first signal, and a receiver, the latter being configured so as to detect signals emitted by the emitters and implementing, for the tracking of the first and second signal emitted by one of the emitters, a local signal modulated by the code.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 1, 2011
    Publication date: May 9, 2013
    Applicant: INSTITUT-TELECOM/TELECOM SUDPARIS
    Inventors: Alexandre Vervisch-Picois, Nel Samama
  • Patent number: 8422598
    Abstract: A method is provided for decoding a signal received by a receiver including at least one reception antenna. The method includes: selecting, among at least two techniques available in the receiver, a decoding technique representative of a space/time encoding implemented upon transmission; and decoding the signal using the selected decoding technique. The selecting step takes into account at least one selection criterion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 2, 2009
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2013
    Assignee: Institut Telecom / Telecom Paristech
    Inventors: Ghaya Rekaya-Ben Othman, Jean-Claude Belfiore, Rym Ouertani