Swissbit: Secure Micro SD Card Family

With the security product line of the PS 100u Series, Swissbit AG is extending its flash memory product line by security products.

This storage solution in Micro SD form factor enables solutions by an embedded secure element. Solution providers can turn mobile and embedded systems into secure devices by using the Micro SD.

The product family comprises of 3 editions suitable for PKI, voice encryption and contactless use cases.

The standard edition PS-100u SE fits best into authentication and PKI use cases. The card is supported by middleware vendors in mobile, desktop and tablet use cases to ensure a design in into existing security infrastructures.

The voice edition PS-100u VE provides elliptic curve cryptography. The computation and security advantage combined with small certificate sizes make it card tailored for online key- and certificate exchange like it is for voice solutions.

In terminals the contactless card PS-100u CL could be connected with an external antenna and communicate via ISO 14443 contactless protocol with all NFC smart phones for wallet, payment, ePurse and banking applications.

The series is equipped with a CC EAL 5+ smart card chip with a CC EAL 5+ certified Java Card OS of the latest standard. The list of supported platforms comprises of Windows 7/8/Vista/XP, Android and BlackBerry, which can be extended upon request.

The available storage densities are 4GB and 8GB in speed class 10.

Available and start of production is in January 2014.