Infineon Technologies AG and Bundesdruckerei GmbH have developed a new security smart card with an LED display and a one-time password. This new technology is centered around a security chip in the card which generates a one-time password for each transaction and displays this on the integrated LED display. Requesting the one-time password in addition to […]

Very soon German bank customers will no longer need their bank cards to get their hands on cash. All they will need is the new German ID card with the online ID function activated and the six-digit ID-card PIN. The highlight of last year’s CeBIT, a demo application showing how to withdraw cash using the […]

The Silicon Trust announced today, that HBPC was to join the international partner program as a new member from January 2013. Pénzjegynyomda Zrt. (Hungarian Banknote Printing Shareholding Company) is the exclusive producer of ‘Forint’ banknotes, and is one of the leading security printers in Hungary, specializing in the production of documents and other products for protection against counterfeiting. […]

While semantics is the study of meaning and the relation between words and phrases - SeManTik is the slightly mind-boggling abbreviation for “Secure and long-life eID applications for human-technology cooperation” – a promising new research project initiated by Bundesdruckerei, Infineon Technologies AG and the Fraunhofer Institute for Reliability and Microintegration IZM. This team of German experts wants to answer questions like: What […]

  How do you keep an ID document with a five to ten year lifetime on top of latests developments? Post issuance solutions is the key word.  How this is best done and by whom and for which applications does it really make sense. Questions Security-News.tv asked industry experts during SDW 2012 in London.

The ICAO Logical Data Structure 2.0 (LDS2) represents the next logical step in the electronification of the remaining eMRTD: Evidence of travel visa; travel stamps; additional biometrics and allows post issuance uploads. Security-News asked industry experts: What will be the impact of this new standard on producers and issuers?