 Gemplus R&D team breaks smart card data transfer barriers with world’s first Crypto motion concept
Crypto motion concept highlights year of innovation for Gemplus as 3 products are nominated for Sésames awards
Luxembourg and Cartes 2003, Paris, 18 November 2003 - Gemplus International S.A. (Euronext: LU0121706294 - GEM and NASDAQ: GEMP), the world’s leading provider of smart card based solutions, today announced the demonstration of a new concept called Crypto motion at the Cartes 2003 trade fair. The R&D team at Gemplus has succeeded in pushing back the barriers of smart card development with a world’s first: a traditional smart card whose OS incorporates programming of a cryptographic kernel to allow real-time deciphering capacity increase of up to 400 times the original speed.
The brainchild of the R&D laboratories from the Gemplus Business Development Group, Crypto motion outstrips all existing smart card limits. Crypto motion is on show as a concept solution at Cartes 2003 to demonstrate that decryption throughput can be increased by up to 400 times the original speed simply by improving the capacity utilisation of available resources. The idea for this principle emerged eighteen months ago when the R&D team was asked to use existing technology for secure decryption of voice data transmissions over networks. Crypto motion is the resulting software intended to illustrate the often-overlooked potential of smart cards to protect and decode data streams in real time such as softwares, game or music files.
2003 marks a very successful year for Gemplus and its R&D group in creating new and innovative solutions for the smart card industry. Three new products and solutions developed by the Business Development Group have been nominated for 3 Sésames awards: Best Technological Innovation Sesame for WLAN-GeMobileIT; Best Software Sesame for Anti-Spy Kit personalisation; and Best GSM application for J2ME.
WLAN- GeMobileIT nominated for Best Technological Innovation Sésame Award:
Gemplus offers secure access and constant connectivity to mobile data on a public WLAN thanks to a smart card that manages the EAP-SIM process. The card also stores and manages the credentials to authenticate users onto their corporate resources through their Virtual Private Network. The solution also includes client software
Anti-Spy Personalisation Kit nominated for Best Software Sésame Award: Secret sharing is a process requiring great care during smart card personalisation. Gemplus Anti-Spy Personalisation Kit is the first product providing legal and mathematical insurance that a user’s secrets will never be disclosed. Onboard generation and secure exchange are key features in enabling this solution to deliver trust.
J2ME nominated for Best GSM Application Sésame Award: In order for J2ME applications to really take off, the wireless industry has required an upper level of security to create an environment of confidence between suppliers and customers. This can be achieved thanks to the Gemplus’ implementation of a set of standardized APIs (JSR177) on a J2ME handset enabling communication between a Java Phone and a (U)SIM Card.
“I am very proud of the recognition that the Gemplus R&D team is receiving from the industry based on the intensive research we conduct on smart card development,” said Jacques Seneca, Vice President and Director of the Business Development Group, Gemplus, "The challenge for our team is to demonstrate that smart cards can be utilised in a much more valuable way than they are currently being used for - the sophistication of microprocessors can enable much more feature-rich applications and solutions."
The Crypto motion and all Gemplus R&D innovations will be demonstrated on the Gemplus stand (Hall 3, stand G025/G033) during the Cartes 2003 trade fair.
Gemplus has the strongest R&D group in the industry with 600 smart card R&D engineers in France, Singapore, Germany and China. The R&D resources of Gemplus are focusing on growing smart card functionalities and ease of use targeting the main market segments: GSM and 3G, banking, ID and security.
Gemplus’ Business Development Group is dedicated to bringing to the market the most advanced embedded software and security solutions, enabling trusted transactions and secured communications with best in class privacy management solutions, as a contribution to the information society of tomorrow.
About Gemplus
Gemplus International S.A. (Euronext: LU0121706294 - GEM and NASDAQ: GEMP) is the world’s leading player in the smart card industry in both revenue and total shipments (source 2002: Gartner-Dataquest, Frost & Sullivan, Datamonitor.) It has the largest R&D team, unrivalled experience, and an outstanding track record of technological innovation.
Gemplus helps its clients offer an exceptional range of portable, personalized solutions that bring security and convenience to people's lives. These include Mobile Telecommunications, Public Telephony, Banking, Retail, Transport, Identity, WLAN, Pay-TV, e-government, access control, and a wealth of other applications.
Gemplus' revenue in 2002 was 787 million Euros.
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