Modern cryptography arose 25 years ago with the concepts of public key ciphering and electronic signature. It has now become commonplace, thanks to the everyday use of RSA and DES algorithms in most secured electronic transactions.

The smart card, born at the same time, is the perfect tool for cryptography: at first to protect the secret keys of the ciphering algorithms, and then, when the computation power of the components allowed it, to run the cryptographic algorithms in the smart card micro processor itself.

Since then, attacks against these security mechanisms became keener, with a combination of algorithmic and hardware analysis.

Spirtech experts put into practice an experience of over 15 year on smartcard security, initiated within Roland Moreno Technology (the former R&D department of the Innovatron group) and then completed by the contactless technology characteristics.

Spirtech has thus designed optimized cryptographic libraries (DES, RSA, PKI, electronic signatures) resistant to DPA attacks.

We have also developed cryptographic algorithms adapted to specific constraints, corresponding to specific uses.

Spirtech engineers are active as security experts in European projects and provide counseling on security attack analysis.