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Oberthur Technologies gets common criteria Certification Eal 4+ For The 2nd Generation Of Electronic Passport With Biometric Fingerprints

Oberthur Technologies, a global leader in the delivery of smart card solutions has been awarded with the Common Criteria EAL 4+ certification for its chip ID One ePass V2, according to the protection profile EAC¹ in both configurations RSA² and elliptic curves.
 

A leading developer of state-of-the-art secure technologies, Oberthur Technologies has developed a second generation chip designed to meet all the international requirements including biometric features such as the fingerprint or iris. It will be protected by a new feature, extended access control (EAC) as well as basic access control, thus strengthening the security and protection of the data.

 

This new chip will be available for all the new European passports - where the EAC features will be mandatory from June 28th 2009 - and for all the countries which have a travel document project based on ICAO³ specification.

 ID One ePass V2 is entirely compliant with the ICAO international specifications and answers the European specification EAC V1.11.

 

ID One ePass V2 has the following characteristics

-          Active authentication

-          Basic Access Control

-          Extended Access Control based on RSA cryptography

-          Extended Access Control based on elliptic curves cryptography

-          Key size in elliptic curves until 384 bits

 

[1] EAC : Extended Access Control 

2 RSA : Rivest, Shamir, Adleman

³ ICAO: International Civil Aviation Organization

⁴ BAC : Basic Access Control

 

 

 

 

Highly secure, this chip has been awarded the following certifications:  

-          Common Criteria Certification EAL 4+ protection profile BAC4 with active authentication

-          Common Criteria Certification EAL 4+ protection profile EAC based on RSA with active authentication

-          Common Criteria Certification EAL 4+ protection profile EAC based on elliptic curves with active authentication

 

Furthermore, this product underwent all the physical and logical known attacks and was certified as being highly resistant. It has also been awarded for the interoperability tests and EAC compliance organized by the Brussels Interoperability Group (BIG).

 

" Oberthur is the first supplier to reach 384 bits key size in elliptic curves with a totally certified chip and offers the best cryptographic performance for the 2^nd generation of electronic passport " commented Xavier Fricout, Deputy Managing Director of the Identity division.

 

With sales of 733.4million Euros in 2007, Oberthur Technologies is a world leader in the field of secure technologies. Innovation and high quality services ensure Oberthur Technologies’ strong positioning in its main target markets:

 

 

■  Smart cards: One of the world’s leading providers of security and identification based on smart card technology and associated services, such as personalization, for the mobile, payment, identity, digital TV and transport markets.

 

■  Secure printing: The world’s third largest private security printer, specializing in high security for the production and management of banknotes, passports and other identity documents in more than fifty countries.

 

■  Cash protection: World leader in the emerging market of equipments for smart cash transportation and ATM protection.

       

 

Close to its customers, Oberthur Technologies benefits from an industrial and commercial presence across all five continents. Oberthur Technologies is listed on the Eurolist section B stock exchange.

 

Web site: www.oberthur.com

 

 

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