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NXP, Bundesdruckerei and Fraunhofer AISEC Working Together on the Next Generation of Smart Cards

Will collaborate over the next two years in the UMABASA research project

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By: DAVID SAVASTANO

Editor, Ink World Magazine

By approving funds of around €1.3m, the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research has sounded the starting bell for a project to develop the next generation of high-security smart cards. Led by chip manufacturer NXP Semiconductors Germany, Bundesdruckerei and Fraunhofer Research Institution for Applied and Integrated Security (AISEC) are to collaborate over the next two years in the UMABASA research project in order to systematically protect smart cards through a unique structural design...

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