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MaskTech receives certification

Monday, November 17, 2008

The German BSI (Federal Office for Information Security) awarded and accredited MaskTech’s MTCOS Pro V2.0 on ST19NR66 Common Criteria EAL4+ according to ISO/IEC 15408:2005. The certification is for operating systems used for electronic passport and identification credentials.


MaskTech already had been awarded certification on two NXP platforms in 2007 for basic access control and 2008 for extended access control. The company is preparing customer specific certifications for Schengen member countries and their delivery chain as well as for new silicon platforms.

Under Common Criteria, products are evaluated against standards that validate the product’s security, design process, development environment, functionality, vulnerability handling, testing and documentation. This is the third security certification for MTCOS in the passport market. [end] 

Operational Research Consultants Inc. (ORC), a subsidiary of WidePoint Corp., has been authorized to issue PIV-I as a certified non-federal issuer.

As a non-federal issuer, ORCs identity credentials, issued to government contractors, state and local governments, first responders and health care providers, have additional interoperability for customers who wish to conduct e-government and e-commerce transactions with other entities across the Federal Bridge.

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Suprema announced that its RealScan-G10 and RealScan-10 line of fingerprint scanners have received final certification from the Government of India’s Standardization Testing & Quality Certification (STQC) to be part of the country’s Unique ID (UID) project.

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ARX received FIPS 201 approval from the U.S. Government’s General Services Administration on the Approved Products List for compliance for its PrivateServer network-attached hardware security module.

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IC-TAG Solutions announced it has earned certification from Alien Technology to use its EPC Gen 2 RFID inlays.

IC TAG utilizes Alien Technology’s EPC Gen 2 Squiggle, Squiglette, and Square inlays in their IC-TAG RFID labels and tags. Alien uses its own proprietary microchip, Higgs 3, to produce its ultra-high frequency RFID tracking devices.

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SecuGen has announced its Hamster IV v2 fingerprint reader, the new generation of its Hamster IV fingerprint readers, has met the requirements Personal Identity Verification (PIV) Single Finger Capture Device Specifications and received FBI certification for FIPS 201/PIV.

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Smart Chip Limited, the Indian subsidiary of Morpho, has received the Software Engineering Institute’s certification for the Maturity 3 level of the Capability Maturity Model Integration for Development (CMMI-DEV).

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