by Klaus Schmeh | Aug 9, 2023 | Products
With IDnomic Sign, Eviden provides a highly secure, high-performance, and flexible electronic signature platform that integrates natively with all components of a trusted infrastructure. The solution addresses the main use cases for electronic signatures: personal signatures, electronic seals, and code signing.
Version 10.4 of IDnomic Sign extends the platform’s functionalities, offering in particular:
- Implementation of signature workflows, to orchestrate the signing of a document between the various players in a business procedure,
- A dashboard displaying the signature server’s main operating indicators,
- Improved, personalized management of signature visuals for PAdES formats.
IDnomic Sign is deployed by a large number of customers in France and abroad, and is used by public authorities, hospitals and companies.
Available as software license or in SaaS mode, IDnomic Sign facilitates online business processes and thus the digital transformation of organizations.
Our experts can help you integrate IDnomic Sign into your information systems and business applications.
Product website: https://www.cryptovision.com/en/products/secure-encryption/idnomic-sign/
by Klaus Schmeh | May 26, 2023 | Products
The new version 2 of Eviden’s cryptovision TSE has been certified by the German Federal Office for Information Security (BSI).
A TSE (Technical Security Equipment) is a security module for cash registers designed to prevent tax fraud. It ensures that every transaction is logged and digitally signed. Since January 1, 2020, every electronic or computerized cash register in Germany must be equipped with a TSE. From 2024, the TSE obligation will also apply to taximeters. The structure and functionality of a TSE are described in the Technical Guideline TR-03153 (Technical Security Device for Electronic Recording Systems) of the BSI.
The cryptovision TSE is an established TSE implementation from Eviden, version 2 of which has now been certified. It enables retail, catering and cab companies to record their transactions in a legally compliant manner in accordance with legal requirements and BSI specifications.
TSE Website: https://www.cryptovision.com/en/solutions/iot-and-industry/fiscalization-solutions/
by Klaus Schmeh | Dec 19, 2022 | Publication
Everything you need to know as a beginner on the subject of post-quantum cryptography, explained in an understandable way on 24 pages, in a German and an English version – this is the concept of the new Atos whitepaper on the subject of post-quantum cryptography. It explains the most important algorithms in a clear manner, avoiding overly complicated mathematics. Since the year 2022 will go down in history as the one in which the standardization of post-quantum cryptography first took concrete shape, this aspect is also highlighted. And finally, the white paper addresses the challenges of the coming years. These include bringing the new methods into the existing chip architectures despite long keys and, in some cases, poorer performance. If you want to know more about these topics, you can download the Atos whitepaper on post-quantum cryptography here.
Whitepaper, English version: https://www.cryptovision.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/2022-12-16-Post-Quantum-Whitepaper-EN.pdf
Whitepaper, German version: https://www.cryptovision.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/2022-12-16-Post-Quantum-Whitepaper-DE.pdf
by Klaus Schmeh | Nov 22, 2022 | Uncategorized
For more than a year cryptovision has been a part of the Atos family. For all those who want to know how the company has developed during this time, a special issue of the ID Security magazine “The Vault” has now been published. All articles in this magazine were written by Atos employees with cryptovision past. The special issue is available for download free of charge.
An interview with Benjamin Drisch, Senior Vice President Government ID, is not called “From hidden champion to global player” for nothing. In fact, cryptovision has developed from a small specialist into a leading international provider in the Government ID segment under the Atos umbrella. The previous Government-ID service portfolio has been expanded to include PKI solutions, a smart card operating system and hardware security modules (HSMs), while the opportunities for project implementation have increased significantly thanks to numerous new colleagues. And, of course, the globally active Atos sales force ensures that cryptovision now has much better access to its customers.
However, the cryptovision special edition of “The Vault” not only reports on cryptovision itself, but also on some exciting developments in the field of digital identities. Among other things, it is about Non-Fungible Tokens, how they are stolen and how this can be prevented – True Crime once again. Fido tokens and smartcard middleware also come up. Also worth reading is an interview with Holger Roessner, CEO of cryptovision partner Advanide.
Finally, there is something to smile about. Adam Ross, an expert in beer and digital identities, reports on an interesting point of contact between his two areas of expertise. Cryptovision says “Cheers” and hopes you enjoy reading!
Link to the PDF version of the magazine: https://www.cryptovision.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/VAULT-cryptovision-Special.pdf
by Klaus Schmeh | Jul 13, 2022 | Cryptography
Do you know CRYSTALS-Kyber? If not, you will certainly get to know this post-quantum encryption method soon, because it was declared one of four winners from an original 69 candidates by the US standardization authority NIST. The other three winners in this multi-year competition are the CRYSTALS-Dilithium, FALCON and SPHINCS+ post-quantum signature methods.
The background is that the asymmetric crypto methods used so far, including RSA and Diffie-Hellman, can be broken with quantum computers. Although usable quantum computers have so far only existed in science fiction, NIST wanted to respond to the looming threat at an early stage and therefore organized a competition in which methods considered to be quantum-safe were to be evaluated and some standardized at the end.
Experience shows that other standardization bodies around the world are adopting NIST’s crypto standards. The announcement of the first four winners – with a few more to follow – is therefore tantamount to a go-ahead, because after years of uncertainty, it is now foreseeable which post-quantum methods will prevail in practice. Crypto vendors around the world will now have to implement these methods, universities will have to change their curricula.
It won’t be easy for crypto enthusiasts, however, because there is higher mathematics behind post-quantum cryptography. While SPHINX+ is based on the comparatively easy-to-understand principle of one-way functions, CRYSTALS-Kyber, CRYSTALS-Dilithium and FALCON are mathematically much more sophisticated. All three belong to the so-called lattice methods and therefore require arithmetic operations in multi-hundred-dimensional lattices – not exactly what the average person learned in school.
Of course, the new post-quantum methods are now also on the roadmap at cryptovision and its parent company Atos. Cryptovision will also continue to dedicate itself to the task of explaining post-quantum cryptography clearly, be it through the popular cryptovision post-quantum whitepaper or comic-style conference presentations. The age of post-quantum cryptography can come, cryptovision and Atos are prepared.
NIST website about the competition: https://csrc.nist.gov/Projects/Post-Quantum-Cryptography
