Abstract:
The present invention concerns the implementation of end-to-end security for the communication between a low cost card reader and the remote server. The purpose of the present invention is the establishment of a secure channel between the card reader and the remote server through an un-trusted communication device (e.g. a smart phone or a tablet) that is intrinsically resistant to some basic differential side-channel analysis in a context where there is no secure random number generator and no source of entropy in the card reader, while providing the following characteristics:—Mutual authentication between the card reader and the server—Secure channel based on session keys such that the keys of the secure channel related to a past transaction cannot be re-played, or the session keys of a future transaction cannot be pre-computed by the card reader and later re-use by the card reader in a legitimate transaction.
Abstract:
A method designed to allow the printing of a matrix (MPC) of pixels, in N colours defining a colour coding system, on a selected part of a physical medium (MP). That method comprises a stage in which colour pixels are printed in at least one pass along oblique lines in relation to the physical medium (MP), wherein the pixels of an oblique line are all in the same colour selected from the N colours and different from that used for the previous oblique line, in order to generate a matrix (MPC) of M horizontal lines comprising P pixels each in the N colours successively in a selected order, and wherein each horizontal line other than the first one comprises a first pixel that is identical to the second pixel of the previous horizontal line.
Abstract:
A method for protecting data on a mass storage device. The device has a security module and a data storage area configured to be switched between a protected state, in which accessing the data storage area is forbidden and an unprotected state, in which accessing the data storage area is authorized. Switching the data storage area from the protected state to the unprotected state by sending a request to a remote server, receiving a one-time password on a communication device, in response to the sent request, providing the received one-time password to the security module, authorizing access to the data storage area by the security module, once the provided one-time password is deemed valid by the security module.
Abstract:
This invention relates to a method used by an authorised user for the verification of a document having electronic verification means, The method comprises the various steps consisting in:—reading, with electronic reading equipment with which the authorised user is equipped, of information stored in the electronic verification means of the verified document;—transferring verification information, established on the basis of the information saved in the electronic verification means, from the electronic reading equipment to a viewing device of the authorised user, which viewing device is positioned, in normal conditions of use, in front of the eyes of the authorised user, the said viewing device being transparent to allow the said authorised user to see through it.
Abstract:
The invention relates to a SIM (2) card in a first format, with an electronic module (4). The card body comprises a score line (6) surrounding the electronic module (4) in order to define the second card format (3). The said score line (6), comprises residual matter thickness that is smaller than the thickness of the card body. The thickness of the residual matter comprises a first thickness (9) over a first part of the score line (6), at least one second thickness (10) smaller than the first thickness (9) over a second part of the score line and at least one residual thickness change zone (11, 17), where the said thickness change zone is a gradual thickness change zone (11, 17) that goes from the first thickness to the second thickness.
Abstract:
A method for protecting data on a mass storage device. The device has a security module and a data storage area configured to be switched between a protected state, in which accessing the data storage area is forbidden and an unprotected state, in which accessing the data storage area is authorized. Switching the data storage area from the protected state to the unprotected state by sending a request to a remote server, receiving a one-time password on a communication device, in response to the sent request, providing the received one-time password to the security module, authorizing access to the data storage area by the security module, once the provided one-time password is deemed valid by the security module.
Abstract:
The present invention concerns a secure document comprising at least a personalized rainbow color micro-text with a text height inferior or equal to 300 μm. The invention also concerns the method of production of said secure document. The present invention also concerns a method of production of a secure document comprising at least a personalized rainbow color micro-text with a text height inferior or equal to 300 μm, said method comprising at least the following steps:—printing a rainbow color pattern on a predefined area of the secure document,—laser marking on the rainbow pattern of the predefined area, in order to form the personalized rainbow color micro-text on said predefined area. The laser marking can be laser blackening, laser whitening or a laser color change.
Abstract:
This invention concerns a card with a marbled visual effect, said card comprising at least one substrate layer comprising a first and a second side, wherein said substrate layer is covered with a translucent protective layer, wherein a pattern cracked by lamination is printed on at least one of the sides of the substrate layer so that the colour located underneath said pattern can be seen through the cracks.
Abstract:
The present invention relates to a countermeasure method against side channel analysis for cryptographic algorithm using Boolean operations and arithmetic operation. To protect a cryptographic algorithm combining Boolean and arithmetic instructions against first order side channel analysis, it is necessary to perform conversions between Boolean masking and arithmetic masking. The present invention proposes a new conversion method from arithmetic masking to Boolean masking, using only one precomputed table T. Said table T being configured so that to convert from arithmetic to Boolean masking k-bit nibble by k-bit nibble for integers having a size greater than k bits while adding a masked carry from the modular addition to the nibble.
Abstract:
The present invention concerns a data carrier having—a central portion covered by at least one translucent protective layer on at least one of its sides,—at least one see-through portion with an orifice filled with a translucent plug, going at least partially through of the central portion. The central portion has a colored core and at least one opaque layer colored in a color different from the colored core in order to show a layered structure of different colors on the edge of the data carrier. The invention also concerns the method of production of such a data carrier.