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Bundesdruckerei to Make Electronic Identities Mobile

Dr. Walter Fumy, chief scientist, receives 2012 SmartCard Award

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By: DAVID SAVASTANO

Editor, Ink World Magazine

As part of the 22nd SIT-SmartCard Workshop organized each year in Darmstadt by the Fraunhofer Institute for Secure Information Technology (SIT), Bundesdruckerei presented new forms of mobile use for the eID functions of the new German ID card. In addition, the 2012 SmartCard Award went to Dr. Walter Fumy, chief scientist at Bundesdruckerei. For more than a year now, German citizens have been able to use the online functions of their new ID cards to securely confirm their identity online; howe...

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