X INFOTECH collaborates with Elyctis to advance quality control in eID document issuance

Latvia's X INFOTECH, a global system integrator for electronic identity (eID) projects and a Silicon Trust partner, will now include Elyctis know-how in the company’s offering in order to deliver a comprehensive, all-in-one solution for ePassport and eID card issuance. X INFOTECH’s solutions perform all the necessary functions to manage the entire production workflow for efficient and…

Suprema inks biometric ePassport contract with Mexican Government

Suprema Inc. has won a nationwide electronic passport project for the Mexico Government. The project, steered by Secretaria de Relaciones Exteriores (SRE, Ministry of Exterior) of Mexico, is aimed to develop passport issuing system for 2.7 million electronic passports across all 32 states in Mexico including the Federal District of Mexico City. With the initial…

Morpho and Oberthur Technologies ink Finnish ePassport contract

The Finnish National Police Board have once again selected the consortium of Oberthur Technologies and Morpho to provide the secure ePassport as well as the related end-to-end issuance system. Oberthur Technologies and Morpho have been providing secure e-Passports for Finland since 2006. The passport will feature a data page made from polycarbonate and incorporate a…

Emirates ID hits record number with 4.6 million eID cards printed in 2012

The Emirates Identity Authority has unveiled its success in printing 4.6 million electronic ID cards since the beginning of this year up to September 20 compared to around 1.7 million in the same period last year. The Emirates ID said its achievement was the result of the limitless support of the UAE prudent leadership aimed…

Malaysia: New ID cards secured by Infineon

Infineon Technologies is supplying the security chips for Malaysia's new national electronic identity cards. Popularly known as ‘MyKad’, the new generation smart card features Infineon`s SLE 78 security controller with Infineon’s award-winning ‘Integrity Guard’ security technology. Malaysia takes advantage of this new security technology combined with SOLID FLASH™ for fast deployment capability. 

MyKad is a…