This year’s annual Silicon Trust Marketing Day was a huge success, attended by over thirty participants, representing twenty companies along the secure ID value chain. With its focus topic ‘ID document lifetime’, the 2012 meeting, which took place on September 12th, attracted important players, such as Giesecke & Devrient, Gemalto, Bundesdruckerei, HID Global, T-Systems, Agfa […]
Giesecke & Devrient (G&D) is enhancing its credentials as a technology leader for security-certified signature card solutions. The German Federal Office for Security in Information Technology (BSI) has granted STARCOS 3.5, G&D’s new smartcard-based operating system, a security certificate for EU-compliant contactless signature cards on the basis of the PACE (Password Authenticated Connection Establishment) protocol. […]
Giesecke & Devrient (G&D) is the first manufacturer in the world to offer a certified solution for the new security functions in electronic passports as well as residence permits and ID cards on the basis of the protection profile as newly defined by Germany’s Federal Office for Information Security (BSI). The BSI has accordingly granted […]
The Regula e-passport inspection system now also received a certification from the German Federal Office for Information Security (BSI) for being compliant to Extended Access Control 2 (EAC2) test standards. The inspection system “Regula series 7024” manufactured by Latvia based Regula Baltija Ltd. is the first inspection system to receive the conformity certificate [BSI-K-TR-0126-2012] for […]
Die Software zur Nutzung der Online-Ausweisfunktion des neuen Personalausweises, die AusweisApp, steht ab sofort wieder zur Verfügung. Bürgerinnen und Bürger können die Software auf der Webseite https://www.ausweisapp.bund.de in der Version 1.0.2 für das Betriebssystem Microsoft Windows herunterladen. Versionen für Linux und Mac OS werden folgen. Das Bundesamt für Sicherheit in der Informationstechnik (BSI) hatte die AusweisApp aufgrund von aufgetretenen Schwachstellen in der automatischen Update-Funktion einer eingehenden […]
Bundesdruckerei GmbH, the general contractor for the German identity card project, has appointed Giesecke & Devrient (G&D) to supply inlays for the new electronic ID card (nPA). Munich-based G&D will therefore be responsible for supplying the electronic components for the new identity document – including the microchip, smart card operating system and antenna. […]
Today is the day hundreds, maybe thousands of security specialists, card developers, application developers, regional councils, politicians and civil servants have been working towards for more than 2 years: The official start of the German eID card – the neue Personalausweis. Just about everything is NEW about this document – the format, the functions, the […]
Heads were smoking today by 4 pm in the grand Marriott Bucharest meeting room, where the 30 participants of the Silicon Trust eHealth workshop had gathered to present, discuss and analyse the requirements and challenges of European eHealth systems. Presenters included Noel Nader from the French Sesame-Vitale, Erwin Bartels from the German Ministry of Health […]
