A smart card to create electronic signatures

Author

Omura, Jim K.

Author_Institution

CYLINK, Sunnyvale, CA, USA

fYear

1989

Firstpage

1160

Abstract

The purpose of smart cards is to create personal electronic signatures. The author presents the design of a smart card chip of less than 25-mm² area which consists of a CPU, 4 kBytes of ROM, 128 Bytes of RAM, 8 kBytes of EPROM, electrically programmable ROM, and a 512-bytes modulo math processor cell for creating electronic signatures. Such a smart card is a complete personal cryptographic module which can be easily carried like any credit card. Attention is given to the use of electronic signatures to create counterfeit-proof paper documents such as stock certificates, bank notes, driver licenses, passports, and labels

Keywords

smart cards; 128 Byte; 4 kByte; 512 bit; 8 kByte; CPU; EPROM; RAM; ROM; bank notes; counterfeit-proof paper documents; credit card; driver licenses; electrically programmable ROM; labels; modulo math processor cell; passports; personal cryptographic module; personal electronic signatures; smart card chip; stock certificates; Central Processing Unit; Computer displays; Computer networks; Contracts; Counterfeiting; Cryptography; EPROM; Read only memory; Read-write memory; Smart cards;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Communications, 1989. ICC '89, BOSTONICC/89. Conference record. 'World Prosperity Through Communications', IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

Boston, MA

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICC.1989.49865

Filename

49865