TÜViT operates a security lab which is accredited by the German Accreditation Body Technology (Deutsche Akkreditierungsstelle Technik in der TGA GmbH – DATech) according to DIN EN ISO/IEC 17025.

Our service

• Conformity testing
• Function testing
• Security testing and
• Penetration testing

Benefits/Usefulness to you

You benefit from

• our long years of experience in the testing of chip cards and hardware security modules within the framework of ITSEC, Common Criteria and ZKA (Central Credit Committee of the German Banks) assessments
• our specialist knowledge with regard to attacks on chip cards, such as for example
• Simple Power Analysis (SPA) and Differential Power Analysis (DPA)
• Fault Injection, e.g. via voltage manipulation, Laser Fault Injection (LFI) and alpha radiation
• Differential Fault Analysis (DFA) of crypto implementations

Measurements and tests (also parallel to development) of chip cards and hardware security modules against existing standards and specifications, e.g. 

• FIPS 140-2
• ISO/IEC 7816
• ZKA specification
• EMV terminal specification
• MKT 1.0
• ePassport conformity testing

The objective

• Identification of nonconformities or weaknesses
• Supply of a report for corresponding approval processes