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June-July 2008 Issue

EDITORIAL-. MIFARE, OH MYFEAR!
The “Mifare” Affair – because it truly can be called an affair now, an affair of state even – is becoming dangerously long and drawn out.

CRITICAL TOPICS-. ID SECURITY MARKETS COME TO A BOIL.
2008 will be the year of ID Security. Echoing the interminable debates cropping up in each individual U.S. state with the announcement of the first deployments (or refusal to deploy) of the Real ID Act and its cards are those now resonating in the U.K...

Event - e-Smart & Smart Mobility-. TOWARDS TRUSTED CONVERGENCE AND OPEN SECURITY.
Aren’t security and openness a bit like water and fire? This idea, which suggests the disastrous theory of security through secrecy and obscurity (just look at the ricochets of the Mifare affair), is finally being debunked.

ECOSMART-. Chinese Card Vendors Now Dominate Home Market.
Ingenico attempts a new entry in POS China Market.
Thales Submit Proposal to acquire nCipher.
SEPA: With or Without Multilateral Interchange Fees?
U.S. Financial Services Technology Consortium Launches Mobile Technology Initiative
GSM Association Teams Up with European Payments Council (EPC).
Infineon and the German Federal Ministry of the Interior Widen Security Cooperation.
-- News from NedCard, Hypercom Corporation, CPI Card Group, Vasco Data Security International, Cryptomathic, Innova Card, Atos Worldwide, Postillion, Xiring, Sagem Orga, Sagem Sécurité, Oberthur Technologies, Gemalto, Giesecke & Devrient, OTI, MasterCard, Bank of America, Bank of China, Barclays, The Ministry of Interior of Qatar, Digimarc, Nagravision.

KEY PEOPLE-. Jacques Stern, cryptologist, CNRS gold medalist 2006 and chairman of Ingenico’s board of directors
"Elliptical curves are a good candidate to replace RSA"

Laurent Herbillon, President of AFSCM (Association Française du Sans Contact Mobile)
"We need to reinvent the processes to build the mobile contactless ecosystem"

TECHNOSMART-. New biodegradable material for card bodies.
First Trusted Platform Module Development Kit for Securing Non-PC Embedded Applications
News from NBS Technologies, Sagem Morpho, Pro Active.

FINANCIALS-. Inside Contactless Receives Additional Funding from Samsung Ventures America
Inside Contactless enters NYSE-Euronext’s radar.
--News from Xiring, Monitise, Kudelski and a Industry Stocks Scoreboard

MARKET STRENDS-. E-ticketing in search of better interoperability
-Interviews with Philippe Vappereau, president of Calypso. Head of unit "Innovative customers technologies", Paris’ urban transit authority RATP..

Michel Barjansky, “Innovative customers technologies“, Business development, Paris’ urban transit authority RATP

Amand Cochet, Director of Sales, Marketing and R&D, ASK.

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