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pub: VEST Enhanced Smart Cards (2007)
Thursday, 01 March 2007 00:00
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Synaptic Laboratories Limited
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Synaptic Laboratories Limited
Version: 1.2
Date:

March, 2007
Keywords: VEST, smart cards, cloning, certified execution, authentication, collision-resistant hash
Electronic Publication: PDF
Abstract: VEST is a modern cipher that can be readily deployed to offer increased efficiency and/or improved functionality in smartcards. VEST can also be deployed to assist prevent real world problems such as identity theft and the emulation and cloning of cards. VEST efficiently implements the essential symmetric cryptographic functions in one low-area, high- performance multi-function module. VEST-4 reduces the cost of authentication applications by delivering the world's smallest published collision-resistant hash in silicon. This and other unique features of VEST can be exploited to deliver new standards of performance and protection in advanced smart card applications such as bus-level encryption, certified execution and hardware token validation during authentication. VEST may not suffer the huge overhead most other small area ciphers suffer to protect against side channel attacks.
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Synaptic Laboratories Limited, "VEST Enhanced Smart Cards (Version 1.2)", March 2007
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