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Smart cards

US6058481A · kind A · utility

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Key dates

Filing dateMar 26, 1998
Grant dateMay 2, 2000
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Expiry dateMar 26, 2018

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
  • CPC primaryH04L9/0637
  • WIPO fieldIT methods for management
  • WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

A logic machine and a circuit for producing an authentication code for authenticating smart cards which include a cycle of steps wherein a bit word is read out of a secret memory with a plurality of bit words, and words read out during previous cycles are combined. The result of the combination is used as a generator word for generating the address of the word to be read out in the next cycle.

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