Athena Smart Cards receive FIPS 140-2 Level 3 and Common Criteria SSCD Type 3 EAL 4+ certifications
Athena high-capacity secure smart card products certified and ready for major Digital ID deployments
Tokyo (Issues Wire / PRWEB) April 4, 2008 -- Athena Smartcard Solutions, a leading developer of smart cards for Digital ID, announced today that the Athena IDProtect 72K Java Card received U.S. Government FIPS 140-2 Level 3 certification while its Athena ASEPCOS Digital Signature smart card received the French Government Common Criteria EAL4+ certification for SSCD Type 3, enabling users to choose from Open Platform or file system based solutions for highest level of security required by government and large enterprise projects and digital signature according to the European directives.
The FIPS certification awarded by the US National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and the Common Criteria certification awarded by the French Government Central Information Systems Security Division (DCSSI) validate the secure design of Athena's smart card products and brings Athena's latest smart card technology to the Government arena.
The Athena IDProtect Java Card provides 72KB of available memory for customer applications with support for RSA 2048, AES, and 3DES on a Java Card 2.2.2 and Global Platform 2.1.1 operating system. The Athena IDProtect Java Card incorporates the latest security features with improved performance and sophisticated memory management.
The Athena ASEPCOS Digital Signature smart card provides 72KB of available memory for digital signature and authentication certificates and keys and additional user data. Available also with dual interface contact/contactless interfaces and match-on-card fingerprint biometrics, the Athena ASEPCOS Digital Signature card is an ideal platform for Government and Enterprise ID which requires Common Criteria certification.
Governments world-wide are starting to issue smart card based credentials to citizens and employees. The Athena IDProtect and ASEPCOS cards are designed to answer the security needs and performance requirements of such government projects. The Athena smart cards are supported by Athena's extensive middleware libraries, card management system and Athena smart card related services.
About Athena
Athena Smartcard Solutions, one of the industry's fastest growing vendors, is a leading provider of smart cards, tokens, smart card readers and smart card management systems -- protecting computer networks -- and an innovative supplier of cards and operating systems for banking and GSM. Athena's offices in the US, UK, EMEA, and Asia serve customers worldwide including some of the world's leading banks, manufactures, GSM operators and Government organizations.
Athena's products include contact and dual interface open platform and file system based cryptographic smart cards for Windows Authentication, PIV, CNS/CIE, JICSAP, GSM, and EMV. The Athena ASEDrive line of smart card readers includes high performance USB desktop, internal, keyboard and biometric smart card readers. Athena's cryptographic middleware solutions including the ASECard Crypto Toolkit with support for all major operating systems, and through the Athena CMS, our customers enjoy smart card life-cycle management solutions for contact and contactless cards.
©2008 Athena Smartcard Solutions. All rights reserved. IDProtect, ASEPCOS, ASECard Crypto and the Athena logo are trademarks or registered trademarks of Athena Smartcard Solutions. All other product and brand names mentioned in this document are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective owners.
For more information, please visit http://www.athena-scs.com
Jochi Fuchs
Athena
Tel: +1 408 914 2808
Email: press(at)athena-scs.com
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