Supplemental Cryptographic Hardware for Smart Cards

  • Authors:
  • Elena Trichina;Marco Bucci;Domenico De Seta;Raimondo Luzzi

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-;-;-

  • Venue:
  • IEEE Micro
  • Year:
  • 2001

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Abstract

Software alone cannot satisfy all smart card requirements. Manufacturers must offer additional functions in hardware. The authors describe true random-number generators and an Advanced Encryption Standard computation unit; two different special-purpose hardware blocks that can be integrated on the silicon substrate along with the usual functional units of a smart card microcontroller.