EUROSMART General Assembly

It will take place on 19th April in Brussels in the Stanhope Hotel located in the European area. Chairman Jacques Seneca will officially present Eurosmart Vision Paper 2020 to the European institutions and the press.

The industry will deliver its global figures for 2006 and forecast for the first semester 2007 during a press conference from 5.00 pm.

EUROSMART Working Groups activities

- Security experts are finalising a Protection Profile survey - Eurosmart members have shared and improved their expertise on PP since 1997. More than 20 PPs exists today - 50% are certified
You will find in this survey (posted soon) a list of certified PP in use.

- eID group members have written an ePassport explanation document about Security into Smart Cards and ePassports - Some confusion exists regarding the recent trials in alleged attacking ePassports’ security. Reading the information contained in an ePassport is not an attack, nor a crack. Reading or photocopying an open passport is about the same, because the electronic data stored in the contactless chip are equal to data printed on the internal page (name, surname, date of birth, address, etc.).

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EUROSMART Speeches in coming conferences

- Contactless Cards Conference, 25-26 June 2007, London: presentation on Contactless Secure Transactions by Rémy de Tonnac, CEO Inside Contactless. Read more

- Advanced ID Systems UE, 14-16 May 2007, Brussels: common presentation of Eurosmart White Paper on Security into smart cards and ePassports by Bruno Rouchouze (Gemalto), Christian Zipfel (G&D) and Detlef Houdeau (Infineon). Read more

- World IC Summit Card, 28 May 2007, Beijing: presentation of Eurosmart by General Secretary Bruno Dupont. Read more