User's Manual

Lecip Arcontia confidential (V1.00 2019-05-13)
5.1.1 Service Hatch
• SAM1 – SAM 4 – Secure Access Module
A Secure Access Module (or Secure Application Module) is based on smartcard ICs and is
used to enhance the security and cryptography performance in devices, commonly in
devices needing to perform secure transactios, such as paying terminals. It can be used
for computation and secure authentication against smart cards or contactless EMV cards.
Arcontia supports a variety of SAM cards and have knowledge and tooling available for
creation of SAM cards and generating keys in the SAM cards.
Specific types of SAM e.g MIFARE Desfire AV2 is also supproted through Arcontia
software library ArcB, further described in our SDK which can be made available upon
request.
• SIM1 – SIM Card Slot
A Subsriber Identity Module or Subscriber Identificaton Module (SIM) is an integrated
circuit that securely stores the international mobile subscriber identity (IMSI) and the
related key used to identify and authenticate subscribers on mobile telephony devices
(such as mobile phones and computers).