Oberthur Card Systems Partners With Entrust Technologies

Working Together to Develop E-Commerce, M-Commerce and Card Management Solutions

Oberthur Card Systems, the innovator in the smart card industry, today announced a partnership with Entrust Technologies Inc., a global leader in PKI (Public Key Infrastructure) products and e-business security.

The partnership brings together Oberthur's expertise in the field of advanced card-based e-business and wireless technology and Entrust's proven expertise in providing PKI and Certificate Authority solutions to trusted, secure e-business and m-commerce.

"Oberthur and Entrust share a common mission and have partnered to provide the most secure electronic and mobile commerce solutions for mobile operators and financial institutions to governments and the healthcare industry," said Marc Bertin, director of e-business for Oberthur Card Systems.

The Entrust and Oberthur partnership enables financial institutions and telecom operators to quickly and easily deploy the infrastructure needed to enable fixed and wireless transactions for any device using smart card technology.

Oberthur provides the technology and security of a card-based system, and Entrust provides the technical expertise and solutions from its Global Wireless Solutions and core PKI groups. The integrated offering includes e-commerce, wireless and card management solutions.

Integrating Oberthur's advanced Card Management System with Entrust ensures that the PKI and certificates are not simply added into products at a later stage, but are incorporated into the manufacturing process from the beginning of the cards' lifecycles.

The partnership between Entrust and Oberthur will also meet the increasing demands of e-business by providing the necessary security to ensure strong authentication of users together with trustworthy and convenient digital signatures on transactions. These integrated capabilities will improve the security, reliability and scalability of e-business initiatives.

"Oberthur and Entrust are together seeking to create wholly secure and trusted online and wireless business environments," commented Richard Kirk, vice-president of global wireless solutions for Entrust Technologies. "We are providing financial institutions and banks with easily implemented solutions, which meet the highest security requirements.

"Entrust is strategically positioned in the security market as a leading provider of PKI products and services. By joining forces with Oberthur, a leading innovator in smart card technology, we will bring greater integration in the implementation of reliable and secure end-to-end e-business solutions. This will lead to greater efficiency, cost savings and a faster time to market for our customers."

The initial projects to be embarked upon jointly will be to develop solutions for putting WAP (Wireless Application Protocol) digital certificates onto all Oberthur smart card products, including SIM/WIM cards for telecommunications, banking and authentication.

In addition, Entrust.net's WAP root key certificates will be embedded within Oberthur's SIM/WIM cards setting the foundation for delivery of trusted services.

The solution is designed to meet the high scalability and performance requirements of Oberthur Card Systems, a high volume manufacturer producing several millions of cards per month. All solutions conform to open standards including Identrus standards.


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