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US 8,806,623 B2Granted
Microcircuit card protected by a fuse
AssigneeOberthur Technologies
InventorsNicolas Morin, Christophe Giraud
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Abstract
A microcircuit card (200) includes means for detecting an attack on the card, and command means (130) capable of blowing a fuse (250) of the card when an attack is detected.
Claims9
A module including:
- means for detecting an attack on said module;
- and
- command means for enabling to blow a fuse of said module when an attack is detected,
- wherein said command means are able to command the charging of a capacitor during normal operation and commanding the discharging of said capacitor to blow said fuse when an attack is detected.
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