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A new license fee for every smart card?

Monday, January 10, 2005 in Library

Cyptography Research asks chip or card manufacturers to pay for use of its patented security measures

In the late 1990s, a scare tore through the smart card community when the media began running articles attacking the security of the cards and calling into question the vulnerability of chip card-enabled systems. The threat had a very serious sounding name, differential power analysis (DPA), and the concern spread quickly.

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