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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 24, 2006
Filed:
Apr. 13, 2001
Bruce Willins, East Northport, NY (US);
Jacob Sharony, Dix Hills, NY (US);
Huayan Wang, Hauppauge, NY (US);
Bruce Willins, East Northport, NY (US);
Jacob Sharony, Dix Hills, NY (US);
Huayan Wang, Hauppauge, NY (US);
Symbol Technologies, Inc., Holtsville, NY (US);
Abstract
A semiconductor device for securely controlling access to a cryptographic processor including a semiconductor package with a biometric data capture device therein operative to acquire data associated with predetermined biometric characteristic of a user and store it as a biometric key, and a processing unit in the package coupled to the data capture device. An encryption/decryption circuit is also disposed in the semiconductor package and is operative to perform encryption or decryption on input data utilizing the biometric key.