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Gemalto ships over 25 million smart cards to the US Government
08 December 2009 , Written by Dhruv Tanwar
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Digital security company Gemalto has said that its shipments of smart card-based identity credentials to the U.S. federal government have crossed the 25 million mark.

Gemalto has shipped government identity credentials, used for securing the identities of federal government employees and military personnel and for electronic passports (ePassports), used for protecting the personal information of U.S. citizens traveling abroad.

In a statement, Neville Pattinson, vice president for government affairs at Gemalto North America said, “Gemalto is honored to be a trusted partner in providing secure identity credentials to over 25 million US citizens, federal employees and military personnel. We have worked diligently to ensure Gemalto’s manufacturing, software and services meet the stringent security requirements of the US federal government enabling citizens to obtain secure credentials that are convenient and easy to use. We are proud to be a leading part of an ever evolving identity ecosystem aimed at protecting citizen’s identities and securing the homeland.”

Some of Gemalto’s latest innovations for the US government include its next-generation PIV card and the Smart Guardian (SG) FIPS USB Key.  The PIV card has dual contact/contact less technology and doubles the storage capacity of previous PIV cards to handle larger encryption keys and store multiple identity certificates.  Through its open platform, the card can also support adding new applications, such as biometric match-on-card.  The smart card-based SG FIPS is a zero-footprint encrypted secure flash drive that goes beyond security requirements to offer additional security and interoperability with federal PIV credentials.
 

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