摘要:
A method for protecting the execution of a main program against possible traps, including, on occurrence of an instruction from the main program, starting a time counter of a given count according to next instructions of the main program, and executing, once the counter has reached its count, at least one instruction of a secondary program from which the result of the main program depends.
摘要:
A device for the regeneration of a clock signal from an external serial bus includes a ring oscillator and counter. The ring oscillator provides n phases of a clock signal. Of these n phases, one phase is used as a reference and is applied to the counter. It is thus possible to count the number of entire reference clock signal periods between a first pulse and a second pulse received from the bus. In reading the state of the phases in the oscillator upon reception of the second pulse, a determination is made for a current phase corresponding to the phase delay between the reference clock signal and the second pulse of the bus. By using a regeneration device that also includes a ring oscillator and a counter, it is possible to regenerate the clock signal of the bus with high precision.
摘要:
A method and a circuit for checking the coherence between data read from a first area of a memory of a microcontroller and the address of these data, including calculating a current digital signature of the read data by a function also taking into account the address of these data in the memory, and checking the coherence between the current signature and a previously-recorded signature.
摘要:
A method and a circuit for protecting a numerical quantity contained in an integrated circuit on a first number of bits, in a modular exponentiation computing of a data by the numerical quantity, including: selecting at least one second number included between the unit and said first number minus two; dividing the numerical quantity into at least two parts, a first part including, from the bit of rank null, a number of bits equal to the second number, a second part including the remaining bits; for each part of the quantity, computing a first modular exponentiation of said data by the part concerned and a second modular exponentiation of the result of the first by the FIG. 2 exponentiated to the power of the rank of the first bit of the part concerned; and computing the product of the results of the first and second modular exponentiations.
摘要:
A method for protecting an integrated circuit, including at least one non-volatile memory, including the steps of detecting a possible disturbance in the flow of a program executed by the integrated circuit, modifying the value of a digital variable in a volatile storage element in case of a disturbance detection and, in a way independent in time from the detection, intervening upon the non-volatile memory according to the value of said variable.
摘要:
A method for protecting an execution, by an integrated circuit, of a ciphering and/or deciphering algorithm taking into account data and at least one valid key and performing several iterations of the same calculation, including at least one execution of an iteration with the valid key between several executions of the same iteration with the invalid keys obtained by applying at least one non-linear one-way function to the valid key.
摘要:
A method and a circuit for checking the coherence between data read from a first area of a memory of a microcontroller and the address of these data, including calculating a current digital signature of the read data by a function also taking into account the address of these data in the memory, and checking the coherence between the current signature and a previously-recorded signature.
摘要:
A method and a circuit for protecting a digital quantity over a first number of bits, in an algorithm executing at least one modular exponentiation of data by the quantity, the steps including at least one squaring up and at least one multiplication and implementing, for each bit of the quantity, different calculation steps according to the state of the bit, a same number of multiplications being performed whatever the state of the bit and all the calculation steps using a multiplication being taken into account to calculate a final result.
摘要:
A method and a circuit for protecting an integrated circuit against an extraction of data read from at least one memory, comprising the steps of comparing each data word to be output from the integrated circuit with at least one value stored in this circuit, and generating an error signal in case of an identity between the value and the data waiting to be output.
摘要:
A data communication device comprises an input circuit (DRTC) that converts external data (XDT) into internal data (IDT) on the basis of a sampling signal (SP). A synchronization circuit (SYNC) provides the sampling signal (SP) on the basis of an oscillator signal (OS) and a synchronization value (SV). The synchronization value (SV) is representative of a number of cycles of the oscillator signal (OS) contained within a time interval for a unit of external data. The synchronization value (SV) is an initial value (IV) during an initial synchronization phase and a measured value (MV) during a measurement-based synchronization phase. A control circuit (IFC) carries out a calibration step in which the initial value (IV) is a preprogrammed reset value (RV) and in which the measured value (MV) is stored as a calibration value (CV). The control circuit (IFC) applies the calibration value (CV) as the initial value (IV) in subsequent initial synchronization phases.