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NXP Supports the Philippines with eGovernment Solutions

Philippines’ highly secure ePassport and multi-purpose ID program based on NXP SmartMX2 microcontroller.

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By: DAVID SAVASTANO

Editor, Ink World Magazine

The Philippines government has chosen NXP’s SmartMX2 secure microcontroller for its modernized electronics passports (ePassports) and unified multipurposeidentification card (UMID) program. The ePassports program enhances national security with secure biometric data, encryption and authentication technology to help reduce document reproduction and identification fraud for approximately 93 million Filipinos.   SmartMX products contain the IntegralSecurity architecture with more than 100 securit...

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