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SCM Microsystems Offers First Certified Smart Card Reader for the New Electronic ID Card in Germany

SCL011 can now be employed in government sponsored user tests

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By: DAVID SAVASTANO

Editor, Ink World Magazine

SCM Microsystems, Inc., a leading provider of solutions for secure access, secure identity and secure exchange, announced that its contactless smart card reader SCL011 is the first reader to be certified by the Federal Office for Information Security (Bundesamt für Sicherheit in der Informationstechnik, or BSI) to be used with the new electronic ID card (neuer Personalausweis, or nPA) in Germany. Beginning Nov. 1, 2010, the nPA – a contactless smart card – will replace the statutory plastic i...

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