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News

   3rd Mar 09

 Indian electronic passports embedded with Infineon's security microcontroller


Bangalore, India: Infineon Technologies has announced that, it is the supplier of contactless security microcontrollers for India's electronic passport program. The rollout has started with the issuance of electronic passports to Indian diplomats and officials, and it is expected that in this first phase, up to thirty thousand electronic passports shall be issued. By September 2009, the program is likely to be expanded to include passports used by the general public. Today, approximately six million passports are being annually issued in India.

Designed to facilitate international travel by allowing automatic identity verification, fast immigration inspections combined with efficient border protection and security, the new electronic passports include a security microcontroller in the back cover of the passport that securely stores the same information that is printed on the document.

"India is one of the first major emerging countries to launch the electronic passport and among the fastest-growing smart card markets," said Dr. Helmut Gassel, division president of the Chip Card and Security division at Infineon Technologies. "As the leading supplier of chips used for secure identification, financial transactions and access to electronic systems, we are proud to be selected to supply the security microcontrollers for the first rollout of the Indian electronic passports. Infineon is committed to work with our partners in the development of solutions for the India market."

Infineon is ranked high in the security microcontrollers market with its security MCU devices used in electronic passports of USA, Germany, Denmark, Estonia, Hong Kong, Norway, Poland, Sweden and Ivory Coast.


The security-certified contactless microcontroller used in India's electronic passport is SLE 66CLX800PE.

The key features of this device are,
1. This MCU features a crypto-coprocessor and operates at high transaction speeds of up to 848      kbits/s even if elevated encryption and decryption operations have to be calculated.
2. SLE 66CLX800PE offers all contactless proximity interfaces on a single chip: the ISO/IEC 14443     Type B interface and Type A interface, and the ISO/IEC 18092.
3. The SLE 66CLX800PE is also compliant with global ICAO (International Civil Aviation Organization)     standards for electronic passports.
4. This device offers 80 kilobytes (kb) of EEPROM, 240 kb of ROM, and 6 kb of RAM. With its tailored set     of EEPROM/ROM and RAM memory sizes, the SLE 66CLX800PE adheres to the ICAO requirements     for the secure storage of the biometric and personal data in travel documents.
5. The SLE 66PE contactless controller family, which includes the SLE 66CLX800PE, is certified     according to Common Criteria EAL 5+ high (BSI-PP-0002 protection profile) security certification.

More details on this chip are available at,
www.infineon.com/security and at www.infineon.com/cms/en/product/channel

Infineon says, currently it is the world's only chip card IC provider offering contactless microcontrollers with all relevant contactless proximity interfaces on a single chip.





          
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