CRYPTOGRAPHIC EQUIPMENT

Abstract

Cryptographic equipment is used with a number of user identification cards which are distributed to various authorized users, each user identification card being a non-volatile memory which can be overwritten in which a user-associated external crypto-ignition key is stored. Insertion of the user identification card in the cryptographic equipment releases the cryptovariable code by cooperation with an internal crypto-ignition key stored internal in a sub-memory of the cryptographic equipment for every authorized user. The cryptovariable required for setting and controlling the cryptosequence generator is stored in encoded form in another sub-memory of the variable memory, and is capable of being decoded with the cryptovariable code.

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35 USC §181 Secrecy Order

Inventor

• 1MARTIN SEYSEN