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Date Posted: 10:04:15 11/09/02 Sat In reply to: anonymous 's message, "Re: Outline of Proton. pages 4 and 5" on 09:59:50 11/09/02 Sat Page 6 ------------------------------------------------------------Launched in February 2001, Proton Prisma DP allows smart card issuers to deploy customised, multi-function smart cards using an open, Java Card technology-based platform. In today's environment, smart card development can be hindered by proprietary - and often incompatible - design and manufacturing standards, resulting in cumbersome development cycles and increased production costs. Proton Prisma DP addresses these concerns by employing a flexible architecture for building multiple applications on a single smart card while adhering to open, compatible smart card standards. The core of the Proton Prisma DP product that American Express plans to integrate into its Java Card technology-based smart cards consists of two components - CALC (Card Application & Life Cycle Manager) and DFM (Data File Manager). CALC provides a framework for card issuers to more easily manage multiple applications on a single card, provides the ability to download smart card applications from multiple channels such as the Internet, and offers the ability for smart card users to access multiple applications through a single personal identification number (PIN). CALC is a spearhead implementation of the Open Platform 2.1 specifications, owned and managed by GlobalPlatform, a cross-industry forum focused on the development, management and promotion of specifications for multiple-application smart cards. DFM allows card issuers to personalise application files and directories to support applications defined by the issuers themselves or by third party application developers, and allows this to occur dynamically after issuance. Glen Salow, Executive Vice-President and Chief Information Officer at American Express, said "Adopting Proton Prisma DP is consistent with American Express' commitment to smart card technology that is open and flexible. Proton Prisma DP will enhance our ability to deploy global smart card solutions with evolving functions and features for our customers, and enable us to do so through a cost-effective, competitive delivery mechanism. Proton Prisma DP also builds upon our commitment to Java Card technology." Armand Linkens, CEO at Proton World, said, "We are greatly encouraged by this agreement which sees Proton Prisma DP adopted by a world market leader with great influence in the smart card world. We are also pleased that Sun MicrosystemsTM supports our efforts to design a new, highly-secure, open, scaleable technology that offers solutions for smart card issuers and users around the world." Richard Green, Vice-President and General Manager, Java Software at Sun Microsystems, said, "Proton Prisma DP complements Java Card technology's secure, interoperable platform for the development of compelling e-commerce applications and services because it offers issuers an efficient, flexible and cost-effective solution. Integrating Proton Prisma DP with the Java Card platform will create a robust, scaleable and open environment for Open Platform issuers." American Express plans to incorporate Proton Prisma DP into its Java Card-based smart card products after it becomes commercially available. Proton World is currently targeting the release of Proton Prisma DP in the first quarter of 2002. http://www.eetimes.com/story/OEG20010523S0079E-purse body pushes toward global specification By Margaret QuanEE Times(05/23/01, 3:32 p.m. EST) MANHASSET, N.Y. - Cepsco LLC, the Common Electronic Purse Specification body founded in 1999 to champion a global standard for e-purse platforms, has launched a partners group to promote acceptance of its Common E-Purse Specification (CEPS). Cepsco announced the group at the recent CardTech/SecurTech trade show in Las Vegas. Member companies include smart-card manufacturer Schlumberger Ltd. (Montrouge, France), semiconductor supplier Infineon Technologies (Munich, Germany), card system provider Cubic Transportation Systems (San Diego), chip provider Philips Semiconductors (Eindhoven, Netherlands), card provider JCB International Ltd. (Tokyo), financial services company Citigroup Inc. (New York), electronic-payment terminal manufacturer Ingenico Group (Puteaux Cedex, France) and the Electronic Commerce Security Technology Research Association (Ecsec; Tokyo). The formation of the Cepsco Partners Group is a step forward for the e-purse, an electronic stored-value application for chip (smart) cards in which prepaid funds are stored on the card for use in purchasing goods and services. There are 100 million e-purse cards circulating in Europe, where one in three people now carries an e-purse card. Local efforts to date ------------------------------------------------------------ Page 7 ------------------------------------------------------------ To date, however, e-purse efforts have been "very local and proprietary," said Kaye Burns, senior vice president of consumer-product-platform development at Visa International (San Francisco) and a member of Cepsco's steering committee. To make e-purses easier to use and increase their worldwide acceptance, the CEPS standard looks to enable technically compatible e-purse systems that can be used anywhere in the world. That should lower implementation costs for e-purses, since developers will not need to juggle fast-evolving proprietary chip card technologies and platforms. The standard also moves e-purses to robust RSA public-key encryption and away from the more vulnerable DES encryption now used to secure e-purse applications. Cepsco expects availability of the first production-ready CEPS-compliant e-purse smart cards by spring 2002. In the meantime, the first pilot tests of CEPS-compliant schemes are under way in the Netherlands, Belgium, France and Spain. This so-called Ducato project involves smart-card system provider Proton World (Brussels) and several European banks and payment companies, including Europay International (Waterloo, Belgium) and Visa International. The pilot program seeks to validate interoperability in a real-world international environment. Members of the new Cepsco Partners Group will have access to Web-based services through which they can share information on e-purse technologies as well as receive prereleases on spec enhancements and discounts on Cepsco events. Herve Kergoat, chairman of the Cepsco steering committee and head of prepaid products for Europay International, Europe's leading payments organization, said the group will help card manufacturers, chip companies and other members determine in which e-purse technologies they should invest. In two years, Kergoat predicted, "all debit and credit cards in Europe will migrate to chip cards with e-purse applications." Creation of an international e-purse standard and applications is predicted to drive growth of the worldwide market for microprocessor-based smart cards at a 33.1 percent compound annual rate through 2003, when unit shipments could total 1.2 billion, according to Gartner Dataquest. It is believed that the standard will drive growth because an e-purse card under CEPS requires a security co-processor or microprocessor capable of performing RSA public-key encryption. Most of the chips currently used for smart cards are not powerful enough to perform RSA processing and require a separate co-processor to perform the RSA algorithms. But most major smart-card chip providers plan to introduce 32-bit processors that will accommodate RSA processing, along with other functions. Cepsco LLC's plan is for CEPS to go beyond the reaches of the European continent toward worldwide acceptance. CEPS is already on its way, with over 350 licensees in Europe and Africa and growing interest in Asia-Pacific nations. But e-purse applications are not common in the United States, where it has been tough to make a business case for the technology, said Europay International's Kergoat. E-purse cards generally provide an advantage in situations where merchants can't afford to take the risks involved with a credit card, the telecommunications infrastructure is expensive or unreliable, and consumers prefer to put limits on their spending. Those situations don't widely exist in the United States, and since e-purse cards - like any new card products - require a long-term investment, U.S. banks have proved reluctant to commit. Thus far, Cepsco's executives are not aware of any plans to launch a large-scale CEPS-based e-purse program in the U.S. market. Visa International has an e-purse product called Visa Cash, available in U.S dollars as well as in euros, that it plans to submit to Cepsco for certification. But Visa's Burns said there are no plans yet for a broad U.S. rollout. The company claims there are 7.5 million Visa Cash cards in use worldwide. But it does not break out numbers for the United States, where Visa Cash cards have been issued in such closed communities as military bases and college campuses. http://www.protonworld.com/press/archiveindex.htmGEMPLUS TO SUPPLY WORLD'S FIRST PROTON PRISMA MULTI-APPLICATION CARDS. Gemplus, first card vendor chosen by Proton World, launches the new generation of multi-application Proton smart cards. These cards will be based on the JavaCardTM technology. Brussels & Gemenos, 20 February 2001- Proton World and Gemplus announced today that the first Proton Prisma multiple-application smart cards will be supplied by Gemplus. The new Gemplus card is called GemProton Prisma. It uses JavaCardTM technology and is the first smart card to integrate CALC, Proton World's spearhead implementation of the forthcoming Open Platform 2.1 specifications. It will enable issuers in the banking sector to migrate to the new global standards such as EMV (debit/credit) and CEPS (e-purse) which will enable international interoperability. ----------------------------------------------------------- Page 8 ----------------------------------------------------------- It will also be possible to load and remove applications remotely and in a highly-secure manner after the cards have been issued. The first batch of GemProton Prisma cards will be supplied to Banksys in Belgium and Interpay in the Netherlands for use in the pilot implementation of internationally-interoperable CEPS-compliant e-purses in Belgium, France, the Netherlands and Spain that was announced at the Proton World Forum in Ghent on 12 September 2000. Proton Prisma offers a multiple-application smart card platform, with applications such as: domestic e-purse, interoperable CEPS-based e-purse, EMV-compliant credit/debit, PKI-based authentication and m- & e-commerce payment. In line with its overall open product strategy, Proton World has made the Proton Prisma specifications available to other existing certified Proton third-party manufacturers, and expects other card vendors to follow the lead of Gemplus. Mr Gilles Michel, Executive Vice-President, Financial Services Business Unit at Gemplus, said: "Gemplus is delighted to position itself on the multi-applications market with a major player like Proton World, and its innovative Proton Prisma solution. The development of the GemProton Prisma completes our JavaCard range with a new generation of multiple-application smart cards. These cards will facilitate migration to international interoperability standards and will allow banks to differentiate themselves from their competitors by offering customised products to their customers." Armand Linkens, CEO at Proton World, said " We very much appreciate the support of Gemplus in this key development for our product strategy. We are confident that the CEPS pilot will demonstrate the robustness of CEPS-based systems. Our existing licensees are also committed to migrate to the Proton Prisma technology and so we are certain that a significant market will develop for Proton Prisma-associated products of all sorts." http://www.1.slb.com/smartcards/news/00/sct_protonmex1112.htmlSchlumberger Mexico's smart card manufacturing and personalisation centre receives Proton World certification Reinforces Schlumberger market position in Latin America Delivery of local solution in a secure, efficient and cost-effective manner Mexico City,11 December 2000 - - -Schlumberger Test & Transactions, a business segment of Schlumberger Limited and a worldwide leader in smart card-related businesses, announced today that its smart card manufacturing and personalisation centre in Mexico City has received Proton World´s certification for the personalisation of Proton-based cards. Schlumberger is the first smart card manufacturer in Mexico to obtain this Proton World certification, which will reinforce its presence in Latin America. "The Proton World certification is an important milestone in the development of our local service offering and in the advancement of our relationship with Mexican and Latin American businesses. Schlumberger continues to demonstrate that it has world-class operation centers and can provide quick delivery of high volumes of smart cards for our customers worldwide," said Othon Gonzalez, Operations Manager, Schlumberger Mexico. Alex Moody Stuart, General Manager for Mexico and Central America, added, "This achievement confirms our commitment to the Latin American market. Schlumberger continues to invest significantly in the region, anticipating our customers' needs in delivering local solutions in a secure, efficient and cost-effective manner." Mike Nash, President of Proton World Americas, said, " Schlumberger investment in this local card personalisation centre is further proof of the long-term collaboration and synergy between Schlumberger and Proton World. It will greatly aid the national roll-out of Inbursa and Telmex's Proton-based smart card scheme in Mexico, and will make the Proton technology even more attractive to potential Proton licensees in Central and South America." Schlumberger is a already a major Proton card supplier in Europe, with manufacturing and personalisation centers in Orleans, France, and Felixstowe, UK, that have Proton World certification for embedding and microelectronics. Schlumberger has 10 personalisation centres around the world.The Schlumberger Mexico City facility opened in 1996, and now employs 500 people. The first operation of its kind in Latin America, it has produced and personalised more than 200 million cards for the Mexican and Central American markets to date, across a wide range of business markets, including telecommunications, banking and mobile communications. Schlumberger is the world's leading supplier of smart card-based solutions. With over 20 years of experience developing smart card technologies, Schlumberger has steadily advanced the creation of new generations of smart cards, point-of-sale terminals, ticket-issuing machines, banking terminals, servers, software, integration systems and applications, all of which play a key role in the digital era of the 21st century. OBERTHUR ENDORSES PROTON WORLD'S CALC SPECIFICATIONS ------------------------------------------------------------ [ Next Thread | Previous Thread | Next Message | Previous Message ] |
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