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TCS to roll out next generation smart cards
By agencies
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Friday, 10 June 2005, 19:30 IST
HYDERABAD: Tata Consultancy Services, IndiaÂ’s top software exporter, will roll out indigenously designed next generation smart cards in the next six to eight months.
The Embedded Systems Group in the Bangalore center is working on designing the chip needed for smart cards based on cryptographic algorithms, while the cards will be manufactured in Taiwan.
The eSecurity group, R&D division of TCS carries out work in several areas related to secure communication, encryption and Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) technology. TCS is a licensed Certifying Authority (CA), licensed and authorized by the Controller of Certifying Authorities (CCA), Government of India, to issue legally valid digital certificates under the Indian Act, 2000.
TCS Executive Vice-President M Vidyasagar said “The present digital certificates use a third-party chip sourced from a vendor in France. But the next generation smart cards will have chips designed by us. The primary objective of eSecurity group was to take technology to the masses at an affordable cost. But the present digital certificates were expensive. But the new cards we are working on when produced in volumes, will significantly be available at lower costs besides processing the transaction in just less than 350 milli seconds.”