Skip to main content
An official website of the European UnionAn official EU website
Go to the home page of the European Commission (opens in new window)
English English
CORDIS - EU research results
CORDIS
CORDIS Web 30th anniversary CORDIS Web 30th anniversary
Content archived on 2024-05-24

Open and FULL SPEED USB smart card

Objective

With the emergence of broadband system, PC, interactive TV, and GSM become the platforms to access multimedia contents. PC, interactive TV, and GSM will need a powerful platform such as an Open 32 bits Full Speed multi-protocol Chip Card (OMPCC) to perform cryptographic tasks supporting Public Key Infrastructure, Conditional Access, or Data Right Management. High computing power, and high channel capacity are necessary. The 32-bit RISC platform will provide the power. The Universal Serial Bus will cohabit with the ISO, EMV, and Multi-Media Card protocols to serve the communication needs. USB will evolve to support "On the Go" initiative by the consumer appliance community.

Objectives:
The Full speed project aims at developing and delivering an innovative solution based on USB high-speed communication techniques, more powerful Central Processor Unit (CPU) and Java Operating System to support multimedia applications requiring high cryptographic calculation capacities. The OMPCC is compatible with ISO & EMV specifications.

Work description:
The project is organized in 2 major phases:
1) Advance on core technology blocks and prove the innovative technical concepts. A technology demonstrator will be provided at the end of this phase. It will run on a PC with driver and a PKI application.
This phase (Work package 3) will be divided into 5 different tasks:
- Core technology building blocks development;
- Development of innovative methods and associated tools;
- Card platform integration;
- Demonstration;
- Evaluation campaign to gain confidence in the resulting platform;
2) Integrate technology blocks and provide a first innovative DRM/CA solution. It will be a Pay TV application.

This phase (Work package 4) will be divided into 3 different tasks:

- Development of the additional Core technology building blocks;
- Integration and validation of the card platform as well as its host environment;
- Demonstration of an innovative solution for the interactive TV, Pay TV.
Under the Project management (Work package 1), these two main phases will be coordinated with a specification work (Work package 2), including architecture of the card platform and the DRM/CA solution, feasibility studies, and identification of requirements and functionality aspects.
Work package 5 will take care of the dissemination and exploitation of the project results.

Milestones:
The project ends with a demonstration of a new card, which allows the protection of digital broadcasted over a broadband system (Internet, TV).

For this demonstration a full decryption performed inside the card as a difference of the current situation where rights are decrypted in the card and in the terminal opening a door to potential hackers.

Fields of science (EuroSciVoc)

CORDIS classifies projects with EuroSciVoc, a multilingual taxonomy of fields of science, through a semi-automatic process based on NLP techniques. See: https://op.europa.eu/en/web/eu-vocabularies/euroscivoc.

You need to log in or register to use this function

Call for proposal

Data not available

Coordinator

AXALTO SA
EU contribution
No data
Address
AVENUE JEAN JAURES 50
92120 MONTROUGE
France

See on map

Total cost
No data

Participants (5)