Windows 8 is not yet here but charismathics customers can already be sure that as soon as it is officially released, they will be able to run their PKI solutions efficiently as always. charismathics announces Windows 8 compliance, featuring a custom Key Storage Provider. Latest intelligence on Microsoft®‘s Windows 8 availability talks about September 2012.…
Tag: Smart card
CES 2012: Rocstor launches Amphibious – secure, portable harddrive with real time encryption
This month's security gadget tip from the Silicon Trust blog team: ROCSTOR announed the launch of Amphibious, an International CES Innovations 2012 Design and Engineering Awards Honoree. The Amphibious is a secure, ruggedized portable hard drive with real time hardware encryption and offers advanced two-factor authentication, USB 2 and Firewire 800. In addition, the crypto…
BridgePoint Systems Unveils New Crypto ID Smart Card for Facility Access
BridgePoint™ Systems launched its new Crypto ID™ smart card. The new card sets a higher security standard for smart card usage in the facility access industry. Crypto ID uses a customer managed, secure Physical Access Control System (PACS) applet that is similar to the Personal Identity Verification (PIV) model, taking advantage of a Cardholder Unique…
CARTES & IDentification 2011: Infineon Presents First eFlash Microcontrollers on 65 Nanometer for Chip Card and Security Applications
Infineon Technologies AG announced the availability of first samples of the 65 nanometer (nm) embedded flash (eFlash) microcontrollers (MCUs) targeting chip card and security applications. This results from the development and production partnership for 65nm eFlash MCUs Infineon and TSMC established in 2009. First products to be ramped in high volume will be microcontrollers for…
Healthcare fraud: The card strikes back!
By Yolanda Varuhaki, Gemalto Combating Healthcare fraud: Gemalto contributes and shares its best practices This study on fraud in healthcare systems was drafted following a request from Gemalto’s customers during the 2009 conference on healthcare systems held in Warsaw, attended by participants from thirteen different countries. Gemalto’s analysis has been focused on several countries with different…
MaskTech awarded best Government application – Smart Card for Egypt eFamily card
The Egypt eFamily card (from MaskTech) has been awarded the best Government application during the Cards Middle East 2011 conference and exhibition in Abu Dhabi, May 17th - 18th 2011. The project aims at building automatic system using smart card technology where subsidized services including supply, health insurance, education, transport and fuel can be paid. About…
Watchdata’s Cryptographic Algorithm Validated by National Institute of Standards and Technology
Watchdata, a company that develops data security and smart card technology solutions, announces that Watchdata-FIPS-TimeCOS® Hardware Cryptographic Library Cryptographic Algorithm has been tested and validated by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) as conforming to the Cryptographic Algorithm Validation Program (CAVP). The successful validation results are published on NIST’s official website on April 20, 2011.…
Secure Flash for high security smart cards
By Ines Pedersen, Infineon Technologies Over the last years the smart card market has changed dramatically. Technical progress, an increasing demand for security as well as a broad change in people’s minds have led to strong growth of electronically supported systems, like cashless payment – in different form factors such as smart cards, mobile phones…