Abstract
The several security elements of the smart card are based on phisical and logical barriers.
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Materially, the smart card is a monolithic component including a microprocessor and a memory of 8 K bits, this memory being indelible.
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In addition entry test points have been destroyed before activating the smart card.
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In practice it is impossible to read, modify or duplicate the contents of the smart card.
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Logically, the chip is able to memorize the different wrong access attempts and invalidate the electronic circuit after three repeated attempts for example or N attempts on the whole.
Let’s see in addition that the dialogues between the chip and the exterior depend on a random value, which is a known element of security and a protection againts the passive intrusion and possibilities of simulation.
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What are the uses of the smart card, specially in metter of protection of information and more generally in security?
They concerned:
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Identification
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Authentication
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Enciphering and key management
They allow the security of:
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The access to premises or to a network
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the payment ot P.O.S. or at distance
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the transmission in networks, electronic messeging for instance
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access to services such as: broadcast videotex or toll TV, interactive videotex, database.
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Goutay, J. (1985). Smart Card Applications in Security and Data Protection. In: Beth, T., Cot, N., Ingemarsson, I. (eds) Advances in Cryptology. EUROCRYPT 1984. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 209. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-39757-4_34
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