Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. has announced that two chips designed for combination (contact and non-contact) smart cards have been given Common Criteria (CC) EAL 4 certification.
Samsung's newly certified portfolio includes both a 72KB and a 144KB smart card IC, the latter being the highest capacity currently available. Both ICs offer sufficient storage space for diverse biological data (face, fingerprints, retina, and genetic makeup) required by biometric identification systems. The chips are suitable for products such as electronic passports.
The new combination smart card consists of a high-performance, 16-bit CalmRISCTM CPU, an RSA public key encryption algorithm, a Triple-DES, and an AES algorithm. An attack-prevention design technology has also been applied to help prevent the possibility of personal data loss to hackers. Also built into the smart cards is the ISO 14443 A/B type contactless function, providing fast and stable data links between the card and the card reader in non-contact situations.
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Taken from Information Security Bulletin.