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Increasing efficiency of OTA campaigns The XCT™ Campaign Manager is the new GemConnect OTA module enabling operators to run massive OTA campaigns more efficiently. The XCT™ is based on a triple patented technology that has two goals:
These goals are achieved by a new execution engine that allows:
For the operator, there are many advantages:
The XCT™ Campaign Manager module has now been in active service for a year as an add-on module on the GemConnect OTA 2.6 platform. First on site deployments have shown very good results, and a real advance compared with former campaign management module. In 2006, the next steps for the XCT™ Campaign Manager module will be to enlarge its features and to address cross-product usage, especially enabling specific GemConnect Service Manager download portal campaigns. Secured Upgradeability (SU) This approach enables some interesting improvements:
Gemplus cryptographer receives Best Paper Award Pascal Paillier, a member of Gemplus's Security Technologies R&D team won the Asiacrypt 2005 Best Paper Award. Asiacrypt is one of the three most prestigious cryptographic conferences worldwide. The 11th edition of Asiacrypt took place on December 4-8 in Chennai (Madras), India. Like Eurocrypt and Crypto, Asiacrypt is organized by the International Association for Cryptologic Research (IACR, http://www.iacr.org) and this year attracted more than 200 participants. This year's Best Paper Award was given to Pascal Paillier (Gemplus R&D) and Damien Vergnaud (Laboratoire de Mathematiques Nicolas Oresme, France) for their surprising paper "Discrete-log-based signatures may not be equivalent to discrete logs". [Find a list of Gemplus research publications on our site] The paper deals with the security of well-known signature schemes such as DSA, ECDSA, GQ or Schnorr, some of which (DSA, ECDSA) are widespread industrial standards. In essence, the paper shows that the security of these signatures is unlikely to be equivalent to solving the discrete logarithm problem, contrary to what has been widely assumed for years. This, in turn, reveals that the security of these signatures is weaker than expected, thereby providing a more accurate assessment of their true security level. However, it also appears that Pascal and Damien's discovery does not provide any effective attack against any of these signature schemes and in particular does not endanger security products. This award is a major achievement for Pascal and for the security team at Gemplus in general. It is the first such award the team has received, and crowns a year which saw some 17 research papers published in a wide range of cryptographic conferences such as ACNS, PKC, Crypto (3 papers), MyCrypt, ICICS, Asiacrypt or CHES. More Innovations - Gemplus recognized for prolific innovation record Gemplus is renowned for being prodigiously innovative – and has the figures to prove it! The French National Institute of Industrial Property (INPI) publishes a yearly report presenting the key figures regarding patents. The new 2004 edition shows that Gemplus is among the top 20 companies in France (#19), with 69 patents granted in 2004. This places Gemplus ahead of other international companies with a strong profile in technological innovation, including Airbus, Schneider, and Alstom. This clearly positions Gemplus as a leading actor of innovation in France, and supports its participation in the worldwide center of excellence for “Solutions for secure communications”, a key program for the French government. "Gemprox Technology" - Removing the barriers for a contactless world
GemProx Technology removes the technical barriers associated with the high performance levels required by contactless readers/writers. It offers the following features:
GemProx Technology makes contactless smart cards as easy to use as a contact card. More >> http://www.gemplus.com/pss/readers/gemprox.html 1994-2004: Gemplus Celebrates a Decade of Scientific Research Gemplus is proud to celebrate a decade of scientific research. Gemplus' first scientific publication dating back to 1994 has since been followed by more than 200 patents, and over 350 scientific publications in world-class journals and international conferences. Gemplus' researchers served in nearly one hundred program committees of scientific conferences and editorial boards of journals. Twenty PhD theses and three habilitation theses were or are being currently prepared in Gemplus. Our researchers received the prestigious RSA Industry Award in 2001 and, more recently - two sesames at Cartes 2004 for "Best Software" and "Best Mobile Application". "Gemplus' researchers are very proud of the company's recognition of their achievements and of our corporation's commitment to scientific research and the development of in-depth expertises. I'm fully convinced that this unique blend of concept and project work is one of the secrets of our long-lasting success as the leader of our industry" says David Naccache, Vice-President Research and Innovation. Combating new security threats in an open-access Internet environment In November 2004, Gemplus was nominated as finalist in the EUROPEAN INFORMATION SECURITY AWARDS 2004 for its recommended SOHO Security Policy for the Uniaccess project. Through several MEDEA+ European projects (such as UniAccess, which has now evolved towards PlaNeTs), Gemplus has promoted rigorous security methodologies and techniques into the SOHO broadband access domain. In this new environment, end-users have on always-on Internet access and must face new threats in addition to a great variety of emerging technologies (Powerline, WLAN and even now WPAN). More... Gemplus Security Expert: Jean-Francois Schultz; Project Leader: Laurent Manteau. Cartes'2004: BioEasy and APDU-TLS1 win Best Software and Best Mobile Application Sesame Awards
APDU-TLS fulfils the security needs for communication between a smart card and a terminal where the data is subject to attacks from the PC world. Based on the TLS protocol, APDU-TLS sets up a secure end-to-end communication between a smart card and a terminal in the Internet environment. See Gemplus press release here
Gemplus is very active in the research community: each year around 50 papers are published in international conferences or workshops and world-class journals. Gemplus is also highly involved in conference organization with an important participation to program committees (around 20 for the two last years) and steering committees (CT-RSA, PKC, SAC). This highlights the high level of external recognition Gemplus' experts benefit from. Gemplus takes advantage of this great expertise in various domains (including security, cryptography, embedded solutions, smart-card implementations) to share knowledge with academia and industry, and develop partnership to increase its own know-how and make the products benefit from it.
The InspireD consortium comprises 16 of the leading industrial and academic stakeholders from the European Smart Card arena. Headed by Gemplus, the team includes representatives from ActivCard, ARTTIC, Atmel, Axalto, Everbee Networks, France Telecom, Gemplus, Giesecke & Devrient, Infineon, INRIA, NDS Technologies, Oberthur Card Systems, Orga, Philips, the Université Catholique de Louvain, and the University of Twente. This is so far the only European Commission project exclusively dedicated to smart cards. It will create a new standard for open platforms for the entire smart card and security industry. All aspects of smart card technology will be studied, including the silicon component platform, the cryptography and security authentication protocols for data protection, operating systems, and the software application layers. This will enable a seamless integration of Trusted Personal Devices in many IT applications. For more information, see the complete Gemplus announcement.
BioEasy at JavaOne
It provides a unique alternative to match-on-card that allows fast and easy biometrics authentication on the smart card, without compromising security or memory space. BioEasy can be implemented through a relatively small Java applet (less than one kilobyte), allowing additional applications to be added onto the card. BioEasy is suitable for any biometric techniques, e.g. fingerprint, iris, face recognition etc., and can be used for the interoperability of all proprietary solutions known on the market. On the road to CMM level 3! The Gemplus Card Development Centre (CDC) in Singapore has achieved the industry's high-rating CMM (Capability Maturity Model) Level 2 certification standard. This achievement is Gemplus' second, and shortly following the company's certification of its French CDC in December 2003. Gemplus is the first organisation of its industry to obtain a CMM level 2 certification, which covers both the smart cards and the OTA platforms (Over the Air). The CMM, developed at Carnegie Mellon University's Software Engineering Institute (SEI), USA, is considered the industry standard for measuring the maturity of an organization's software development processes. The Singapore R&D team have played an instrumental role over the last seven years in defining Gemplus' technology solution roadmaps for the financial and telecommunication industries. The Singapore team is Gemplus' second largest in the world, after France.
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Driven by the
ISO14443 standard for contactless technology, GemProx has been developed by
Gemplus to be fully compliant with the open standards endorsed by government and
banking organizations for new contactless applications.
BioEasy
is a Gemplus patent that offers a simple and secure way todeploy biometric
technology using the card for high-speed authentication rather than the PC or
card reader. This takes no longer than 80 milliseconds and does not compromise
security or memory space. The smart card is the ideal support to manage portable
biometrics information.
European Commission has launched a new cooperative research project in the
Smart Card domain. Called "InspireD", the project will develop the new
generation of smart card technology for Trusted Personal Devices. This embraces
all kinds of secure portable devices, and allows users to connect to their
preferred e-services wherever they are located.