Patent ID: 7942333

Claim:
A method for an entity different than a manufacturer of an integrated circuit card to perform a secure personalization phase of the semi-finished integrated circuit card, the integrated circuit card comprising a non-volatile memory storing an algorithm for processing data as a finite-state machine and enabling the entity different than the manufacturer of the integrated circuit card to access the algorithm for storing personalization data and information in the non-volatile memory required by the secure personalization phase according to a designated application field of the integrated circuit card, the method comprising: performing a security authentication before enabling the algorithm to receive the personalization data and information; enabling the algorithm to receive the personalization data and information; storing the personalization data and information in secret memory locations in the non-volatile memory according to a data structure and an access procedure hidden to the entity different from the manufacturer of the integrated circuit card; and repeating the enabling and storing if the personalization data and information were not correct.