WO1999048053A1 - Systeme et procede de gestion de licences d'affranchisseuses - Google Patents

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WO1999048053A1
WO1999048053A1 PCT/US1999/005892 US9905892W WO9948053A1 WO 1999048053 A1 WO1999048053 A1 WO 1999048053A1 US 9905892 W US9905892 W US 9905892W WO 9948053 A1 WO9948053 A1 WO 9948053A1
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Edward J. Naclerio
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Ascom Hasler Mailing Systems Inc.
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Priority to DE69932605T priority patent/DE69932605T2/de
Priority to EP99912649A priority patent/EP1064621B1/fr
Priority to US09/646,492 priority patent/US6820065B1/en
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    • G07B—TICKET-ISSUING APPARATUS; FARE-REGISTERING APPARATUS; FRANKING APPARATUS
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    • G07B2017/00145—Communication details outside or between apparatus via the Internet
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    • G07B2017/00967—PSD [Postal Security Device] as defined by the USPS [US Postal Service]

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  • the invention relates generally to postage meters (franking machines), and relates particularly to systems in which postage meter licenses are managed in a way that is non-identical to the number of associated postal security devices.
  • the application claims priority from US application no. 60/078,488, filed March 18, 1998, which application is incorporated herein by reference to the extent permitted by the designated and elected States hereto.
  • the accounting means includes an ascending register indicative of postage that has been printed, and typically a piece counter indicative of the number of mail pieces that have been printed. In many countries including the United States, the accounting means also includes a descending register indicative of the amount of postage value available to be printed.
  • the printing means is used to print postage indicia on mail pieces, typically by a relief printing die with characteristic fluorescent ink. Such postage meters have worked exceeding well for decades and have proven to be reliable.
  • the postage meter saves the postal authority from much of the work of printing, stocking and selling postage stamps.
  • the postage meter user can simply print the new postal amount, while the stamp user must queue up at the post office to purchase stamps in the new denomination.
  • nonsecure printers such as laser printers, ink-jet printers, and thermal transfer printers.
  • Such printers are termed “nonsecure” because the printer itself is not in a secure housing and because the communications channel linking the printer to other apparatus is nonsecure.
  • nonsecure printers because the printer itself is not in a secure housing and because the communications channel linking the printer to other apparatus is nonsecure.
  • the proposed anti-fraud measure is to store information within the indicia which would permit detecting fraud.
  • the indicium would include not only human-readable text such as a date and a postage amount, but would also include machine- readable information, for example by means of a two-dimensional bar code.
  • the machine- readable information would be cryptographically signed, and would include within it some information intended to make fraud more difficult.
  • the information would typically include an identification of the postage meter license (granted by the meter manufacturer or by the postal authorities, depending on the country), an indication of the number of mail pieces franked, the postage amount, a postal security device identifier about which more will be said later, the date and time, and a zip code or post code of the mail piece addressee.
  • Yet another drawback is that it is commonplace for a mail piece to get smudged on the way to the post office or within the post office, prior to the authentication scanning by the post office. If the post office is unable to read the bar code, the post office has to decide whether to return the mail piece to the sender, or risk delivering a mail piece bearing a counterfeit indicium.
  • the typical apparatus for printing such "encrypted indicia" postage includes what is called a postal security device or PSD.
  • PSD has a secure housing, and within the secure housing are the accounting registers as well as a cryptographic engine.
  • the engine permits cryptographic authentication and signing for communication with an external device such as the computer of the meter manufacturer or of the post office.
  • the engine also permits creation of postal indicia which contain specified information and which are cryptographically signed.
  • the PSD may well be physically small as compared to traditional postage meters.
  • the PSD may be the size of a PCMCIA card or the size of a smart card.
  • the memory must be protected against unadvertent damage due to malfunction of the processor of the PSD, for example as set forth in US Pat. No. 5668973, Protection system for critical memory information owned by the same assignee as the assignee of the present application.
  • the PSD must handle power failure in a graceful fashion, for example as set forth in US Pat. No. 5712542, Postage meter with improved handling of power failure, also owned by the same assignee as the assignee of the present application.
  • the printer may preferably be that described in PCT publication no. 97-46389, Printing apparatus, also owned by the same assignee as the assignee of the present application. While it has been proposed that the PSD contain a real-time clock which is keeping time continuously, desirably this requirement may be avoided as described in PCT publication no. 98-08325, Printing postage with cryptographic clocking security, also owned by the same assignee as the assignee of the present application. PSDs can form part of a network with multiple printers as described in PCT publication no. 98-13790, Proof of postage digital franking, also owned by the same assignee as the assignee of the present application.
  • the PSD in proposed systems contains the ascending and (optional depending on country) descending registers, the piece counter, and a "meter license number".
  • the meter license number represents a legal license granted by the postal authority which permits operation of the PSD and the associated printing of postage indicia. It is assumed that the PSD also has a unique identifying number stored within the PSD, but this number is expected to be non- identical to the meter license number. For example, if a PSD were to require service, the PSD manufacturer may take one PSD out of service for a particular customer and place another PSD into service for that particular customer, and yet the meter license number (which pertains to the customer) may remain the same.
  • a system in which a single postal security device has a secure housing, and within the secure housing are two or more accounting register sets.
  • the two or more accounting register sets are associated with distinct meter licenses.
  • the single postal security device can store a single accounting register set, but is able to transfer the register set to a nonsecure store such as the hard drive of a personal computer, the register set having been cryptographically signed. Later the register set may be retrieved from the nonsecure store and cryptographically authenticated, and restored to its location within the secure housing. In this way, the postal security device may provide service under more than one distinct meter license.
  • a single meter license is associated with more than one postal security device, each with its own secure housing. Each register set is configured to permit being reset (refilled with postage) by means of a cryptographically secure exchange of data over a communications channel to external equipment such as a manufacturer's server or a server operated by the post office.
  • Fig. 1 shows in functional block diagram form a prior art PSD system
  • Fig. 2 shows in functional block diagram form a portion of a prior art PSD system
  • Fig. 3 shows in functional block diagram form a PSD system according to an embodiment of the invention
  • Fig. 4 shows in a data flow diagram the steps associated with obtaining an additional meter license with a PSD in accordance with an embodiment of the invention.
  • Fig. 5 shows in functional block diagram form a PSD according to another embodiment of the invention.
  • FIG. 1 there is shown in functional block diagram form a prior art PSD system.
  • a postal security device (PSD) 20 is connected with a user system 21, typically a person computer or workstation. Connected directly or through a local area network is a printer 22 on which postal indicia are printed.
  • the user system 21 is communicatively coupled with a manufacturer's system 24, which in turn is communicatively coupled with the postal authority 26.
  • the communicative links 23 and 25 are preferably TCP/IP links via the Internet, but may optionally be other links such as dialup modem access lines or dedicated data lines.
  • the PSD 20 contains postage value, embodied in the contents of the descending register (item 33 in Fig. 2).
  • the PSD 20 In response to a request from the user via the computer 21, the PSD 20 generates an "encrypted indicium", that is, a print image containing cryptographically signed information, to be printed by means of printer 22 onto an envelope or post card or postage label.
  • the image includes human-readable information as well as computer-readable information in bar code form. If the user wishes to "refill” or “reset” the postage meter, this is done by means of a cryptographically secure exchange between the PSD 20 and the manufacturer's system 24. Depending on the requirements of the postal authority, the resetting may also include an exchange with the postal authority's system 26.
  • the indicium typically includes, in cryptographically signed or encrypted form, the meter license number, a unique number identifying the PSD, the date and time, the contents of the accounting registers, and other information to make the indicium unique such as the post code or Zip code of the mail piece addressee. It will be appreciated that in some countries there is no descending register and the payment by the user is based instead on the changing value of the ascending register. The teachings of the invention may be applied equally well to systems in countries that use a descending register and in countries that do not use a descending register.
  • Fig. 2 shows in functional block diagram form a portion of a prior art PSD system.
  • the PSD 20 has a communications channel 30 which permits data exchanges with the user's computer
  • the PSD 20 contains a register set 31, which include a meter license number 32, an ascending register 33, a descending register 34, and a piece counter 35.
  • the PSD typically contains a cryptographic engine, a clock/calendar, a microprocessor, RAM, nonvolatile RAM, ROM, and a battery, all omitted for clarity in Fig. 2.
  • the PSD has a secure housing to make undetected tampering nearly impossible.
  • the PSD 20 communicates with a printer 22 for printing postage indicia.
  • Fig. 3 shows in functional block diagram form a PSD system according to an embodiment of the invention.
  • Contained within the PSD 40 are two or more register sets 51a, b, c. Each contains a meter license number 52a, b, c, an ascending register 53a, b, c, a descending register 54a, b, c, and a piece counter 55a, b, c.
  • the PSD 40 can print postage with respect to any one of the register sets, and can reset (refill) any one of the register sets.
  • a franking system comprising a printer 22, a postal security device 40 communicatively coupled with the printer 22, and a communications channel 41 coupled with the postal security device 40 to apparatus external to the printer 22 and external to the postal security device 40, the postal security device 40 comprising a secure housing, the postal security device 40 containing within the secure housing a first register set 51a comprising information indicative of a first license number 52a, a first ascending register 53a, and a first piece counter 55a, the postal security device 40 further containing within the secure housing a second register set 51b comprising information indicative of a second license number 52b, a second ascending register 53b, and a second piece counter 55b, each of the ascending registers 53a, b indicative of postage printed in connection with the respective license number 52a, b, each of the piece counters 55a, b indicative of a number of mail pieces franked in connection with the respective license number 52a, b; the postal security device 40 further comprising a franking means
  • a company may have several individuals who generate mail, in particular with PC-based word processing programs. These individuals may be located in different geographic locations. Often it is desired to enter mail at a particular post office as it may speed delivery of that mail to the recipient or recipients. Under the requirements and constraints of the traditional postage metering environment, a company might have to license multiple postage meters for multiple users and for multiple mail entry points. With the system according to the invention, however, a single PSD may be able to serve multiple users.
  • each meter license number has associated with it a particular town in which its mail is to be deposited. (This is important to give revenue credit to each town's post office in keeping with the mail deposited therein.)
  • a particular license is the digitally printed equivalent of the "town die" in a tradition postage meter which indicates the town in which mail is to be deposited.
  • the PSD according to the invention accommodating more than one license, can enable the user to generate franked mail for deposit in more than one town.
  • the postal service may require that the PSD generates a new public/private key pair for signing indicia for each new or additional meter license from the postal authority. In such a case, the private key must of course be securely stored within the PSD.
  • the public key is signed by a certificate authority and is stored in the host system along with the signed meter licenses.
  • Fig. 4 shows in a data flow diagram the steps associated with obtaining an additional meter license with a PSD in accordance with an embodiment of the invention.
  • the user requests the license on the user host system (21 in Fig. 1) in step 60.
  • the user host system 21 forwards the request to the postal security device 40 (in Fig. 4) which prepares a license request message in step 61.
  • the PSD 40 cryptographically signs the message in step 62 and sends the request back to the user host system 21 which forwards the request to the manufacturer system 24 (Fig. 1).
  • the anufacturer system 24 verifies the origin of the request by verifying the signature (block 63) from the PSD 40.
  • the request is then forwarded to the postal authority system 26 (Fig. 1) in step 64.
  • the communications links 23, 25 may be secured, but preferably no security assumption is made about the links 23, 25 and instead cryptographic measures (such as signatures) are employed.
  • the postal authority system 26 issues a meter license number and grants the requested license in step 65, typically adding its own digital signature to the license.
  • the manufacturer's system 24 (Fig. 1) verifies the validity of the license and adds its own digital signature (step 66) and passes the license along to the postage meter (i.e. the PSD 40 in Fig.
  • the PSD 40 establishes accounting registers to correspond to the license, and is able to generate postal indicia in connection with the license.
  • a franking system includes a PSD which contains within its secure housing a means responsive to a cryptographically authenticated authorization received on the communications channel for creating within the secure housing a second register set comprising information indicative of a second license number, a second ascending register, and a second piece counter, each of the ascending registers indicative of postage printed in connection with the respective license number, each of the piece counters indicative of a number of mail pieces franked in connection with the respective license number.
  • the PSD further comprises a franking means responsive to a user request for the printing of a postage indicium in a particular value in connection with a particular license number by incrementing the ascending register in the particular value, by incrementing the piece counter, and by creating a cryptographically authenticated indicium based in part on the license number and the particular value for printing on the printer.
  • Each register set is able to be reset by means of a cryptographically secure exchange over the communications channel, the cryptographically secure exchange including transmission of information indicative of the license number associated with the register set.
  • the method of adding a register set responds to a user request for a second register set.
  • a license request message is prepared and cryptographically signed (blocks 60, 61, 62), the signed license request message is communicated on the communications channel, a response is received on the communications channel and is cryptographically authenticated (block 67).
  • a second register set comprising information indicative of a second license number, a second ascending register, and a second piece counter is created within the PSD 40.
  • a particular register set 51a is cryptographically signed and/or encrypted, and is stored 72 on external nonsecure storage 71, such as the hard disk of the user computer 21 (Fig. 1), or other mass storage. If at a later time the user wishes to use that license, the user host system 21 can transmit the signed register set 51a from the storage
  • the PSD 44 typically also confirms the authenticity of the signatures previously supplied by the manufacturer and the postal authority before accepting the register set 51a for the printing of postage.
  • Another embodiment of the invention directs itself to the problem of a single business entity which may need to be able to print postage at multiple locations despite having no need for more than one meter license.
  • the same license number may be stored into the register set of each of the PSDs. This does not pose a risk of fraud, because according to the invention the PSD unique identifier is communicated in the postal indicia along with the license number. It is assumed, as mentioned earlier, that the post office scans and authenticates every indicium anyway.
  • This embodiment of the invention is convenient in several ways. Users may wish to use this feature to employ more than one PSD to generate indicia for deposit at the same post office. Thus if one PSD is unavailable or low on funds, a second device can be selected to generate indicia.

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L'invention porte sur un système dans lequel un dispositif de sécurité (20, 40, 44) postal, unique est constitué d'un corps protégé dans lequel sont placés au moins deux ensembles totalisateurs (31, 51a, 51b, 51c). Il est important que ces ensembles totalisateurs (31, 51a, 51b, 51c) soient associés à des licences distinctes (32, 52a, 52b, 52c) d'affranchisseuse. Selon une autre variante, le dispositif de sécurité (20, 40, 44) postal, unique peut stocker un ensemble de totalisateurs uniques (31, 51a, 51b, 51c), mais ne peut transférer cet ensemble (31, 51a, 51b, 51c) dans un magasin (71) non protégé tel que le disque dur d'un ordinateur personnel, l'ensemble totalisateur ayant été enregistré (72) cryptographiquement. L'ensemble (72) totalisateur peut être ensuite retiré du magasin (71) non protégé et authentifié cryptographiquement, et restocké à sa place dans le corps protégé du dispositif de sécurité (20, 40, 44) postal. De cette façon, le dispositif de sécurité (20, 40, 44) peut fournir un service sous plusieurs licences distinctes de l'affranchisseuse. Selon une réalisation de cette invention, une licence unique (32, 52a, 52b, 52c) d'affranchisseuse est associée à plusieurs dispositifs de sécurité (20, 40, 44), chacun d'eux ayant son propre corps protégé. Chaque ensemble totalisateur (31, 51a, 51b, 51c) peut être remis à zéro (rechargé par l'affranchisseuse) au moyen d'un échange de données cryptographiquement sûr dans un canal de communication (23, 25, 30, 41, 45) vers un équipement externe tel qu'un serveur (24) de constructeur ou un serveur (26) activé par le bureau de poste.
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JP2000537177A JP2002507800A (ja) 1998-03-18 1999-03-18 郵便料金メータ認証管理の装置と方法
CA002324099A CA2324099A1 (fr) 1998-03-18 1999-03-18 Systeme et procede de gestion de licences d'affranchisseuses
DE69932605T DE69932605T2 (de) 1998-03-18 1999-03-18 System und verfahren zur verwaltung von frankiermaschinenlizenzen
EP99912649A EP1064621B1 (fr) 1998-03-18 1999-03-18 Systeme et procede de gestion de licences d'affranchisseuses
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