USE OF A SECURE ELEMENT FOR WRITING TO AND READING FROM MACHINE READABLE CREDENTIALS
First Claim
1. A secure element comprising:
- information including one or more of cryptographic material, sensitive data, and encoding rules; and
a provisioning program operable to access the information and provide the information via a secure communication channel to an encoding device.
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Abstract
A method for conducting secure communications with credential cards using existing reader/writer hardware that enhances the security of the provisioning process is provided. The method moves the sensitive data contained in these communications together with the program that uses this sensitive data for the purpose of interacting with a credential card inside a secure computational element such as an integrated circuit card. The provisioning program inside the secure element issues commands to readers/writers of existing art in order to establish secure communication with the credential card and then uses the secure channel so created for the purpose of direction communication between the secure computation element and the credential card.
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1. A secure element comprising:
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information including one or more of cryptographic material, sensitive data, and encoding rules; and a provisioning program operable to access the information and provide the information via a secure communication channel to an encoding device. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8)
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9. A system, comprising:
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an encoding device; and a secure element, the secure element comprising information including one or more of cryptographic material, sensitive data, and encoding rules and further comprising a provisioning program operable to access the information and provide the information via a secure communication channel to the encoding device. - View Dependent Claims (10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19)
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20. A method, comprising:
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receiving, at an encoding device, instructions to provision a credential; retrieving, by the encoding device, encoding rules, cryptographic data, and/or sensitive data from a secure element and using the information retrieved from the secure element to provision the credential. - View Dependent Claims (21, 22)
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