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Integrated circuit for embedding in smart cards, and method of issuing smart cards

  • US 6,299,069 B1
  • Filed: 12/14/1998
  • Issued: 10/09/2001
  • Est. Priority Date: 12/26/1997
  • Status: Expired due to Term
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1. An integrated circuit embedded in a smart card, providing an authentication function by generating authentication data from random data, comprising:

  • an interface circuit that receives and generates commands and data, said data including said random data and authentication data;

    an electrically rewritable non-volatile memory that stores at least one instruction file having a list of instructions; and

    an authentication data generator, coupled to said interface circuit and said rewritable non-volatile memory, having logic circuits that execute said instructions to thereby convert said random data into said authentication data, in response to a command received by said interface circuit.

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