 Gemplus
innovations take home two awards at Cartes 2004
BioEasy and APDU-TLS1 win Best Software and Best Mobile
Application in the Sesame Awards
Luxembourg and Cartes 2004, Paris, 4 November 2004, Gemplus
International S.A. (Euronext: LU0121706294 - GEM and NASDAQ: GEMP), the worlds
leading provider of smart card based solutions, announced that its two nominated
solutions, BioEasy and APDU-TLS, won their respective categories of Best
Software and Best Mobile Application in the Sesames Awards, Cartes 2004.
BioEasy is a Gemplus patent that offers a simple and secure way to deploy
biometric technology using the card for high-speed authentication rather than
the PC or card reader. This takes no longer than 80 milliseconds and does not
compromise security or memory space. The smart card is the ideal support to
manage portable biometrics information.
APDU-TLS fulfils the security needs for communication between a smart card
and a terminal where the data is subject to attacks from the PC world. Based on
the TLS protocol, APDU-TLS sets up a secure end-to-end communication between a
smart card and a terminal in the Internet environment.
"Security is fundamental to our industry, helping to identify
individuals, protect privacy, prevent fraud and protect assets", said
Jacques Seneca, Executive Vice President, Research and Development, Gemplus,
"these two solutions are proof of Gemplus' commitment to our clients in
continually bringing the most innovative and secure products to the fore".
1 - APDU-TLS - Application Protocol Data Unit - Transport Layer Security
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: Gartner-Dataquest (2004), Frost & Sullivan, Datamonitor.).
It has sold over 4 billion smart cards.
With security at its core, and 2400 patents produced by its innovative R
& D team, Gemplus delivers a wide range of portable, personalized solutions
in areas including Identity, Mobile Telecommunications, Public Telephony,
Banking, Retail, Transport, Healthcare, WLAN, Pay-TV, e-government, and access
control.
Gemplus' revenue in 2003 was 749 million Euros.
www.gemplus.com
For more information, contact:
Jane Strachey
Corporate PR, Gemplus
Tel: +33 (0)442364661
Fax: +33
(0)676493593
jane.strachey@gemplus.com
Vanessa Clarke
Edelman
Tel: +44 (0)20 7344 1349
Fax: +65 6733 5550
Vanessa.clarke@edelman.com
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