On Tue, Aug 03, 2004 at 03:36:45AM +1200, Peter Gutmann wrote: > G&D produce (or help produce) things like banknotes and passports (and have > been doing so for more than a century), the secrecy comes with the territory.
I have no smart card background, unfortunately. I've heard G&D ignores
requests from open source developer people, though.
Are keywords like STARCOS SPK2.3 (Philips P8WE5032 chip), ITSEC E4
certification (with StarCert v 2.2.) etc. associated with a good
security track?
Features
* ISO/IEC compatible
* Secure messaging
* Hierarchical ISO file system
* DES, 3DES
* State machine
* Logical Channels support
* Deletion of files (EF) and applications (DF)
* Enhanced hardware security
* High performance
* Implementation of various access controls (authentication)
* Data encryption with asymmetric RSA keys up to a key length of 1,024
* bits
* Generation and verification of digital signatures with RSA and DSA
* On-card RSA key generation up to a key length of 1,024 bits
* The digital signature application StarCert is ITSEC E4 high certified
STARCOS SPK2.3 is available on a Philips chip with 32 kByte. Symmetric (DES,
3DES) as well as asymmetric (DSA, RSA) cryptograhic methods are supported.
For further information please contact:
Industry & Government Team
Phone: +49 (0)89 4119-1957
Fax: +49 (0)89 4119-2802
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