EviPass NFC HSM contactless hardware password management technology: how it works and why you need it

How does EviPass NFC HSM work?

EviPass NFC HSM works by using contactless passwordless authentication and post-quantum encryption to protect users’ online accounts and secrets. Here are the main steps of how it works:

• Users install the EviPass web browser extension on their computer or phone. The extension allows them to access their online accounts without entering or remembering passwords or secrets.
• Users pair their device compatible with EviPass NFC HSM technology with their computer or phone via NFC (Near Field Communication) technology. The pairing process involves verifying the identity of both devices using several factors of physical origin authentication.
• Users store their passwords and secrets on their device compatible with EviPass NFC HSM technology. The device encrypts the data using post-quantum encryption algorithms based on lattice problems, such as learning with errors (LWE) or ring learning with errors (RLWE). These problems are hard to solve, even for quantum computers, and have proofs that their security reduces to a worst-case problem. LWE and RLWE are also efficient and compatible with existing communication protocols and networks.
• Users log in to their online accounts by presenting their device compatible with EviPass NFC HSM technology under the NFC antenna of their computer or phone. The device decrypts the data using the physical origin trust criterion and the segmented key authentication method. The device sends the decrypted data to the web browser extension, which automatically fills in the login form. Users can also log in contactlessly directly with their Android NFC phone via the device compatible with EviPass NFC HSM technology without having to enter their credentials and password.
• Users can manage their passwords and secrets on their device compatible with EviPass NFC HSM technology using the web browser extension. They can add, edit, delete, copy, share or backup their data. They can also customize their factors of physical origin authentication.

You can access these functions from the EviCore app on your Android phone or from the EviCore NFC HSM Browser Extension on your web browser. Here is a table that lists all the functions of EviCore NFC HSM:

This table provides a comprehensive view of advanced features for contactless management and use of secrets stored in the NFC HSM. It allows users to create, read, modify, delete, duplicate, clone, share, encrypt and decrypt their secrets securely and conveniently.

Here is a table that provides some technical specifications of EviCore NFC HSM:

EviKeyboard BLE is a device that allows you to use your phone or tablet as a wireless keyboard for your computer. It uses Inputstick technology to connect to your computer’s USB port and EviCore NFC HSM technology to secure your keystrokes. You can use the EviKeyboard app on your phone or tablet to choose the keyboard language and type passwords or cryptographic information.

Why EviKeyboard BLE?

EviKeyboard BLE has several advantages over other wireless keyboards, such as:

• Eliminate the risk of theft, interception or corruption of keystrokes, by using Bluetooth encryption and random order of keystrokes
• Simplify the user experience, by not requiring installation or configuration on the computer, and by starting automatically when plugged in
• Improve the security and privacy of users, by using state-of-the-art encryption and verification methods that resist quantum attacks
• Enable faster and more convenient access to online and offline systems and services, by using your phone or tablet as a wireless keyboard for your computer
• Be compatible with any computer and any application that requires keyboard input. You can use it with Windows, Linux, Mac OS X and many other platforms.

How to use EviKeyboard BLE?

To use EviKeyboard BLE, you need a device compatible with EviPass NFC HSM technology and an EviKeyboard BLE device. You also need the EviKeyboard app on your phone or tablet. Here is what you need to do:

• Connect your device compatible with EviPass NFC HSM technology to your phone or tablet with NFC.
• Open the EviKeyboard app and choose the language of the virtual keyboard from the list.
• Plug your EviKeyboard BLE device into your computer’s USB port.
• Tap on “Connect” in the app and enter the encryption key.
• Type on your phone or tablet and see the text on your computer screen.

You can also use the app to get user info, password info, crypto info, IOTA info or secret note info from your device compatible with EviPass NFC HSM technology. You can copy them or send them to your computer.

EviPass NFC HSM is an innovative and secure solution for wireless access control to protected devices or applications. EviPass allows you to protect your sensitive data and critical applications with a simple approach of your smartphone to a Freemindtronic NFC HSM. The contactless hardware password manager EviPass is the ideal solution for businesses, public administrations, schools or individuals who want to enhance the security of their computer access.

NFC Hardware Password Manager EviPass relies on Freemindtronic’s international patented technology, a company based in Andorra, which designed and developed several inventions in the field of computer security and access control. These inventions are the system of wireless access control to a device protected by pre-set authentication factors (WO2017129887) and the system of segmented key authentication for a computer application (WO2018154258). These patents were invented by Jacques Gascuel, the president of Freemindtronic .

EviPass contactless technology combines these two inventions to offer a secure and decentralized password management solution but also centralized via an innovative end-to-end encrypted air gap sharing system in RSA 4096 between two NFC HSMs.

EviPass does not store your passwords on your computer or phone, but encrypts and decrypts them on the fly thanks to an NFC HSM device compatible with EviPass, such as a smartphone or a security key. EviPass does not ask you to enter your passwords, but transmits them wirelessly and without password using NFC. EviPass uses post-quantum encryption, which resists attacks from quantum computers.

With EviPass, you benefit from the advantages of NFC HSM:

• You enjoy a high level of security, using secret keys and multiple authentication factors.
• You simplify the authentication process, avoiding complex passwords or one-time codes.
• You easily manage your permissions, configuring the authentication factors and tokens associated.
• You adapt your solution to different types of devices or applications protected, using controllable switches.

EviPass works with two technologies EviCore NFC HSM or EviCore HSM OpenPGP from Freemindtronic, which implement these two patents among others. These technologies are secure hardware modules (HSM) that allow you to generate, store and use cryptographic keys securely. They comply with international standards, such as NFC, Bluetooth, AES 256 bits, RSA 4096 bits, IEC/ISO 15639, IEC/ISO 7816:2020, IEC/ISO 8859-1:1998, IEC/ISO 13157-2:2016 and IEC/ISO 15408-1:2022 .

EviPass is also compatible with a new technology of authentication by segmented key in two levels (people), requiring the proximity of two people to use the services of the HSM NFC technology of EviCore. This means that to access a protected device or application, you need two NFC HSM mobile devices and two segments, which are held by two different people. It is mandatory to present both NFC HSM containing each one segment to reconstitute the password that can exceed 256 bits. This segmented key authentication by tiers is already compatible with the EviCore HSM OpenPGP technology by segmenting AES-256 OpenPGP encryption key.

This technology of authentication by segmented key in two levels offers a high level of security, requiring the physical presence and cooperation of two people to access a protected system from a computer or phone system using identification and/or password. It also significantly reduces the risks of password corruption in case of loss or theft, by dividing them into two distinct parts and entrusting them to two different people who only know their segment.

NFC hardware password manager EviPass is therefore a solution based on Freemindtronic’s patented technology, which offers you wireless access control to protected devices or applications, without compromising security or simplicity. EviPass is the solution you need to protect your data and applications with confidence.