Bringing together companies who power secure identification to promote the use of hardware-based security.
The management of an ID card lifecycle is a highly relevant topic for our industry. Many government-issued travel and ID documents have lifetime guarantees of up to 10 years. A decade in electronics is a totally different thing than in security printing - advancements are much faster, as are the skills of hackers and counterfeiters.…
by Marcus Janke and Dr. Peter Laackmann, Infineon Technologies AG Introduction Security processors are vastly utilized for protected processing and storage of data in many of today’s applications. Nevertheless, each security architecture automatically implies a preferred range of use and security lifetime. Consequently, selecting a product with the right security level is not a trivial…